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Cairngora, yarn made from Cairn Coat

Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network
is proud to present hand crafted items created from
Cairngora - Homespun Cairn Terrier Hair!

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Current Offerings - Treasure Pouch

Use it for a night on the town, a place to store memorabilia, or as a focus of curiousity for onlookers in your home. The limits of the Cairngora Purse are endless to one's imagination - use yours! We offer you this gift of love from our furbabies to you. Treasure Pouches are priced at $40.00 and are only available plain or with embelishments. This price includes postage to Canada or the US.

Treasure Pouches are available in Wheaton or Brindle and are approximately 5" high by 8" wide. Basic pouches are knitted, unlined, and without embellishment. Pouches in the Closeup have embellishments attached and can be ordered by listing the embellishments in the notes area of the order form.

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Felted pouches are also available. They can be made in Wheaton, Brindle or a mixture. Felted Cairngora is NOT suitable for daily use as a handbag. This is a very delicate fabric and would be more appropriate as a Treasure Storage Bag. All felted pouches are special order and will take approximately three weeks to produce.

If you are interested in a custom made pouch, please email us at the Cairn Rescue Mall @ CairnRescue.com If the pouch you have requested must be custom made, it will take at least three weeks for its creation.

Current Offerings - Leashes

Fabulous handmade braided leashes are woven from spun cairn coat, with a small amount of lambs wool as a stabilizer. Each leash is approximately 4 feet long with a strong stainless steel snap hook. This unique item is being offered for the special price of only $35.00. You may also choose to have a custom made leash, using your own dog's coat. Custom Leashes are priced at $45.00 and are only available from April to October. This price includes postage to Canada or the US.

Each leash is a unique pattern which depends on the original Cairngora yarn selections. The following pictures are for color example only,
specific weave patterns are not available.
Our Dark Color selection is primarily woven from a selection of Brindle Cairngora that varies on each leash.
Our Light Color selection is primarily woven from a selection of Wheaton and Red Cairngora that varies on each leash.
Our Dark and Light Mixed Color selection is woven from a selection of all colors of Cairngora that varies on each leash.
Custom Leashes can be made with your own dog's coat. If your dog is all one color, we can add an accent color from our supply if you wish, please note that in the comments section of your order. We can spin the undercoat separately to give a contrast color if it is kept separate. We will notify you when the coat arrives and to let you know if you have sent enough fur. It will take approximately 2-3 weeks for the yarn to be spun and the leash woven for you.
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Donating Cairn Coat

To donate your Cairn or Westie coat for our Cairngora items, Click here for directions on shipping coat. Thank you in advance for helping us make these wonderful items.

ALL proceeds, less shipping, will go to help fund Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network's efforts on behalf of rescue cairn terriers and cairn terrier mixes.

eBay Auctions

These items are not available for direct sale. They are sold on eBay as they are available.Look for future offerings.

Cute crocheted wreathes are woven from spun cairn coat, with a small amount of lambs wool as a stabilizer. Each wreath is approximately 3 inches in diameter and is uniquely decorated. There is a choice of coat color, but no choice on individualized embellishments.

Crocheted Cairns
Crocheted Cairn Side
 Crocheted Cairn Front
 Knitted Bell
Crocheted Cairn Side
 Crocheted Cairn Front
 Crocheted Cairn Side
Creating Cairngora

CPCRN encourages all Cairn owners to save their dogs cairn coat that is removed during grooming. Saved coat is sorted and shipped to a single location.
Cairn coat is then washed and put out on a screen in the sun to dry.

Carding the coat is done two or three times until well blended. A small amount of sheeps wool is added at this point. It aids in keeping all the very short cairn hairs together in the final yarn.
The web that comes off the carder as well as rolls of carded coat waiting to be spun. The web is torn into thin strips lengthwise to spin.

Next of course is the spinning itself.
Well, one down, more to go!
Total amount of Cairngora spun as of 6/14/04:
2750 YARDS.

The yarn after it is spun, washed and left to dry. This is the dark wheaten and the gray mix.
Once the yarn is ready, items are made from it by different CPCRN crafters.
Something Special!

March 2005
Here is a picture of my rug so far. It is made of just cairngora in the different shades and is from a photo of my girl Star and my foster Rags looking out of the window when they hear our car pull up. We added the flower box in the front, I hope you can see enough of it, it will look better once it is all finished and blocked etc.

The rug will be about 30 inches by 22. Not as big as my usual ones but I didn’t want to run out of yarn or take forever to make it. I just used the regular cairngora nothing else. It is done with a continuous length of yarn that you pull through in loops from the back with a hook something like a crochet hook. My husband does the design on paper from photos and then the pattern is traced onto the fabric. I then work from his design to try to keep the likeness. I have been making rugs for about seven or eight years and use my own handspun yarn which I dye with natural dyes.

Nova Scotia and the whole of the north east is well known for rug hooking. There are several stores in my area that do nothing else from supplies, classes, finished rugs etc. They are quite expensive as they are very labour intensive. (Mine are in the $1000 range based on size etc.) Most people use woolen fabric cut into narrow strips. This is the traditional method and is done on a fine burlap mostly imported from Scotland or linen which I use as it is much stronger.

I will send another picture as soon as it is finished.

June 2005: This rug was one of the prizes in our New Leash On Life Raffle in June. It was a VERY popular item. Click here for more pictures.

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