When you manoever his tail his head will nod 'yes' or shake 'no'.
But, his tail has lost its mohair covering and there is a rip in the mohair above the tail.
He has a tear in his mohair behind his ear.
The tears are no problem to repair.
I want to get some new mohair to cover the bare wire of his tail and finding this colour of mohair will be tricky. It is a lovely cinnamon colour.
In a local thrift shop I find some mohair fabric ends. At $1.50 for each, this sure beats ordering mohair online! Now I have to try to dye this mohair a cinnamon colour.
This is the first attempt. I dyed a piece of each mohair plus a bit of muslin for repairing those tears. Not bad....but the mohair needs to have a bit more red in it to match.
This second dye attempt looks better.
To fix that big mohair tear, I insert a piece of the dyed muslin under the tear. That will get tacked to the mohair to strengthen the repair before I start darning the tear.
The tear has been secured. Now he needs a replacement tail made from the dyed mohair.
That looks really good. I can't believe you found some mohair pieces at the thrift store! How fortunate! I hope you share the repair and end result! Looking forward to it!
ReplyDeleteI could not believe it either. Usually I find nothing in thrift stores. But, I had just dropped off some donations and decided to see what was in the store. It was karma :-)
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