Mink fur - beautiful, warm, waterproof, shiny, with a smooth pile of brown, chestnut and brown color variations. With proper dressing, proper care and careful storage, a mink coat can last for at least twenty years.
Mink for the manufacture of fur coats are grown around the globe, but above all in Russia, the USA, Canada, China, Poland, Holland, the Baltic States and the Scandinavian countries.
As a rule, the same species, the American mink, is bred at zoofirms of these countries. Animals differ slightly from each other, only depending on the breeding variety of a fur farm. It received its name from what was originally found in the forests of North America.
In the wild, the wild mink can be found very rarely, no more than one hundred thousand skins of this animal are harvested in a year. The forest view is much smaller than the farm one, the length of the body of the wild animal does not exceed 35 centimeters, while the length of their selection "captive" brethren begins from half a meter.
Fur living in natural conditions mink on the banks of rivers and lakes and feeding on frogs, fish and crayfish, is extremely unstable in its quality: unlike the fur of a farm mink, it is not too fluffy, thick and shiny, it has a rather high pile, in some places wild fur has a long awn, and in others it is almost the same with underfur.
The color of such fur is only gray-brownish, and not very even underfur, as a rule, much lighter than the guard hairs.
Skins of wild animals often have all sorts of defects due to damage caused by life in the wild and bites of various parasites, which makes them unsuitable for creating products, and because of a large marriage such fur is not particularly appreciated.
Products from the wild mink are practically crowded out on the market, since their production is not very profitable. Although these skins and are much cheaper, but they are significantly smaller in size, due to this greatly increased their consumption.
To sew at least one fur coat from the wild mink, you will need to make incredible efforts, and you may even have to break the law, since in many countries this animal is listed in the Red Book.
Sometimes poachers catch animals, but fur is allowed only for the manufacture of collars. Commercially wild mink is caught, harvested and sold only in Canada.
Thus, if a mink coat is suspiciously cheap, it is either a Chinese non-factory and illegal product, or it is stitched from low-quality or poorly dressed skins, or the sellers simply try to fool a completely different fur, such as a painted ferret, chanorik, under the guise of wild mink or groundhog.
It can be easily distinguished by a more caustic and stiffer coat, to the touch such fur rustles a little, and the undercoat is thinner than a mink coat.
Sometimes workers of trade cunning, calling the common groundhog "wild field (steppe) mink."
Sometimes under the guise of wild mink fur coats are sold, sewn from the fur of young coypu, who died before the age of three months. In order to avoid losses, Chinese entrepreneurs who are not clean-handed let their skins into production.
Such fur coats are characterized by a low awl pile, and the fur is felt not quite natural, rather artificial.
Unscrupulous sellers can issue an ordinary rabbit for a coat of wild plucked mink, although it is elementary to distinguish it simply by feeling it.
It became unprofitable to sew fur coats from wild fur in the modern world of fashion, it became almost impossible to meet and buy this product from the wild mink, even for a very high price.
But if you are still lucky enough to find genuine high-quality wild mink fur coats on sale, we advise you to stop your choice on elegant elongated classic models that will reveal the beauty and luxury of fur, emphasize the status of their owners, never go out of fashion and will last by faith and true for many years.
