![]() ![]() Also, it will retain its original gloss during its lifespan. The first season it will shed the excess fur from the manufacturing process. It is not susceptible to tears and sheds minimally. Sable is a most resilient fur and can be worn for up to 25 seasons. Finally, we have the let out technique which is reserved for the most experienced fur makers, since it requires advanced skills and precision. Another technique is diagonal stitching which provides a more pleasing look, but requires more pelts and thus a higher price. Between rows, other materials can be stitched, such as lamb leather or more exotic ones such as python leather. The skin to skin technique allows for gaps between rows to reduce volume. ![]() This way each row overlaps the lower row in a unanimous smooth flow. Each "stripe" consists of the dorsal area on the top which is thicker and of the ventral area on the bottom which gradually becomes less dense. In the horizontal technique, the pelts are stitched across after they have been cut in the middle. The skin to skin technique requires the pelts to be stitched together vertically with no gap between them. The most common stitching techniques are skin to skin and horizontal. Marketing and branding can raise the bar even higher. Female pelts are more expensive than males. Other factors that may affect the price is gender. Canadian sable can start from 3000 USD for a knee-length coat. The amount of silver-gray colored tips is proportional to the value of pelts. Barguzinsky sable is the most valued one and can reach up to 150.000 USD for a knee-length coat. The demand is high for the qualities mentioned. The offer is limited by factors such as breeding cycles, geographical limitations, and small size. Its price is determined by offer and demand. Sable fur pelts are a commodity that is auctioned in fur auction houses. Today limitations and farming have restored the population numbers and its geographical distribution so that it is no longer considered a threatened species Overhunting in the 19th and 20th centuries caused a decline in numbers, resulting in a 5-year ban in 1935. Russian royalty wore them as a status simple. Marie-Antoinette is depicted in a painting wearing a dress with sable fur trim. Henry I and Henry VI of England considered it as their favorite garment material. Ivan the Terrible would pay 3-15 silver rubles for one pelt ( 2 silver rubles could buy you a racing horse or a cow at the time). Sable trade is documented since the middle ages in Russia. However, it is highly unlikely that you will ever see one in the streets or for sale. It is the most valued of all sables.Īs an honorable mention, white sable which is a natural mutation is the rarest and most expensive sable and every hunter's dream. The latter is Barguzinsky Sable and comes from a specific Russian area by the lake Baical, Barguzin. Dark brown (black guardhair with slight brownish hue, underfur dark blue gray with gray-silver tips).Golden (light cinnamon brown, sandy yellow or straw yellow).Guardhair is cinnamon-brown, undercoat is light gray with fox-red or pale-yellow hair tips).Sable fur comes naturally in a palette of earthy colors, although artificial, striking neon colors are becoming more common today. It has a supple and pleasing to the touch texture. A 40-inch coat (100cm) weighs 7-8 lbs on average. At the same time, it is breathable and in terms of weight, it is comparable to mink. Sable is one of the warmest furs around and can be worn in extremely low temperatures. The density of hair is 15.000 per square centimeter. Compared to mink, sable has more substance and volume but in no way does it make a bulky garment. This trait provides a silky smooth motion of hair when the person that is wearing it is moving. A trademark of sable is the free motion of hair in any direction after being stroke, even against its grain. The keratin-rich guard hair spectacularly reflects light and provides a "jewel'' like effect, so that a sable can stand on its own as a luxury piece. Sable fur combines mink's sheen with chinchilla's suppleness. A luxurious natural material that once was allowed by law to be worn by royalty, rumored to be what the ancient Greeks called the " golden fleece" only surpassed in value by the sea otter which is considered as a threatened species and is no longer available in the market. Sable fur is the most expensive fur in the market. ![]()
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