seal products and shops

[Magellann]

I'd love to see the seal fur trade take off, perhaps some good marketing would give it a push in the right direction.

 

[silverfoxdj]

Anyone looking for sealskin products can send me a PM. I'm really into the promotion of sealskin products and can act as a middleman between the Inuit harvesters and Southerners interested in obtaining sealskin. A lot of quality work is done in the community I live in and there is no shortage of Ring Seal.

Exellent perhaps putting up a website with pics would be a good start...

 

[jjohnwm]

Anyone looking for sealskin products can send me a PM. I'm really into the promotion of sealskin products and can act as a middleman between the Inuit harvesters and Southerners interested in obtaining sealskin. A lot of quality work is done in the community I live in and there is no shortage of Ring Seal.

Are the products you promote tanned or not? I don't think too many people would be interested in clothing that needs to be kept frozen in the off-season.

 

[OnnO]

tag

for future shopping...

 

[cate5470]

I can get tanned and not tanned. tanned is a bit more expensive. If you want the warmest of the warm you need to go with untanned. I can see about getting anything anyone is interested in. An example of prices:

Gauntlet or ski-doo mitt not tanned: 60-80
wrist length or town mitt with rabbit ruff tanned: 120-160
slippers tanned: 120

 

[Magellann]

I may be interested in a couple items, any chance of seeing a couple pics.

 

[Gatehouse]

Why is untanned warmer?

 

[Boomer]

Why is untanned warmer?

Your eyes water so much from the smell that it keeps your face warm. Or the smell attracts a polar bear and running keeps you warm.

 

[Boomer]

Sometimes you get lucky and a local will make you a pair of mitts . . .

 

[silverfoxdj]

Your eyes water so much from the smell that it keeps your face warm.

lol..good one

 

[Magellann]

Sometimes you get lucky and a local will make you a pair of mitts . . .

I'd love a pair of mitts like that!

 

[Bigbubba]

I would be interested in wrist or snowmobile length mitts, but would want tanned ones.
I checked out the sites in NL, but I cant see paying $250 for sealskin mitts, as much as I would like to support the cause

As suggested, some pictures of what is available with pricing would be good start.

 

[cate5470]

Why is untanned warmer?

Elder told me that the power of sealskin is the wind proofing but that tanning softens it and allows the wind through a bit more.

 

[Biggunners]

Good Thread

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Meat, I want some.

May be I start working for Otokoik