Tom Sjovall's Master Furrier
School of Fur processing
Lessons offered on how to work with furs
Customized Models, Restylings, Alterations, Repairs
home/fax USA (001) 801 274 1977
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Apprentices or starters
- How to, economically, build your workshop – Where to buy parts
- How to build a furriers working table
- Which tools do I use – Where to buy the tools
- How to use the tools
- Hand seams
- Repairing damages – holes in the fur
- Repairing the fur side of the skin
- Where can I buy a new or used Fur sewing machine.
- How can I get started and work the 'Fur sewing machine'
- Lengthening or shortening fur – without using let out/in method
- Dyeing the skin side of the fur dark
- Extended lesson on fur repair
- Galonizing – working leather into the fur-skins
- Cleaning fur skins
- Making fur plates for rugs, pillow etc. from whole material or scraps
- Stretching and nailing up the skin prior to working it
- How to dry the furs correctly
- How to storage furs correctly
- How to make stencils for the different fur types
Do you need a lesson on a particular subject? Please do not hesitate to ask for a special lesson.
For advanced students
- How to dye parts of the skin
- How to cut the fur – skin in stripes
- How to create a fish bone pattern in the fur – skin
- Lesson 1: Matching furs (color, size etc)
- How to make a rug or pillow
- How to shorten a garment
- How to make a 'Mountain man or Trapper's hat'
- How to alter, remake or sew a fur collar onto a textile coat-collar
- How to make a simple pattern
- Lesson 2: How to work the fur sewing machine
- Extended lesson on skin repairs
- Let out, let in, an extensive lesson
- Cleaning fur garments, building an economical cleaner
Do you need a lesson on a particular subject? Please do not hesitate to ask for a special lesson.
For Master furriers
- Lesson 1, 2 and 3 on matching furs
- How to take body measurements correctly
- Creating patters of garments, vests, jackets and coats
- Extended lesson on skin repair
- Let out, let in – an extensive lesson