Rosafox® fur accessories are made of 100 % pure natural materials. Wool and silk are used for the textile and only farmed Finnish blue fox as a fur decoration, which is world famous of it wonderful silky fur quality. Because we use only natural materials, our products are environmental friendly.

The furs are dyed in Finland by strict dyeing directions to match the textile colours. Both the farmers and the dyers follow the EU and Fur Breeders Association's standards in their procedures and are EU certificated.

We buy the blue fox fur direct from the farmers so we know the origin of the fur and the quality as well. The fur's quality is direct indicator of the animal's wellfare.   

Silk                Wool                Blue Fox Fur             

Silk

Silk is a natural protein fibre, which can be woven into textiles. Silk is the fibre of insect larvae or silk worms living in mulberry trees. The larva weaves itself a cocoon to protect it while it is transforming into a moth. This cocoon consists of a single strand of fibre 2000-4000 metres long. One cocoon produces 1-3 kilometres of silk thread.

The shimmering appearance for which silk is prized comes from the fibres' triangular prism-like structure, which allows silk cloth to refract incoming light at different angles. Silk is also the strongest natural fiber known to man.

Silk is a natural protein fibre containing about 70-75% of actual fibre fibroin and about 25-30% sericin. Silk filaments are very fine and long - as much as 300 to 900 metres in length. Silk has a high natural lustre and sheen of a white or cream colour.  Silk has a relatively high standard moisture regain of 11%. At saturation the regain is 25-35%.

Silk can be dyed before or after it has been woven into a cloth. It can be woven or knitted. (www.silkki.com, www.wikipedia.org)

Wool

Wool is the fibre derived from the fur of animals of the Caprinae family, principally sheep. Wool has two qualities that distinguish it from hair or fur: it has scales which overlap like shingles on a roof and it is crimped; in some fleeces the wool fibres have more than 20 bends per inch.

Wool's scaling and crimp make it easier to spin and felt the fleece. They help the individual fibres attach to each other so that they stay together.

Because of the crimp, wool fabrics have a greater bulk than other textiles and retain air, which causes the product to retain heat. Insulation also works both ways; bedouins and tuaregs use wool clothes to keep the heat out.

The amount of crimp corresponds to the thickness of the wool fibres. On sheep, the hair part of the fleece is called kemp. The relative amounts of kemp to wool vary from breed to breed, and make some fleeces more desirable for spinning, felting or carding into batts for quilts or other insulating products. (www.wikipedia.org) 

Blue Fox Fur (Alopex lagopus) 

Blue fox is a blue-grey colour type of the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus). It is the most significant farmed fox whose fur is a very light shade in winter and almost dark grey in summer. Farmed blue foxes descend from the Alaskan blue fox and the Greenland blue fox. Finnish fur farms produce 2/3 of the world's fox pelts sold in international auctions.

Soft and thick blue fox fur is traditionally used for collars and increasingly popular as trimmings thanks to its favourable dyeing characteristics and to fast developing dyeing techniques.

The quality of the fur depends on the animals' well-being. Fur bearing animals are particularly sensitive to problems and variations in their environmental conditions. Any distress to the animals caused by poor health, nutrition, housing, or climate can have a detrimental effect on the quality of their fur, and therefore the prices fetched at auction. As a result, animal welfare is the number one concern of the fur industry.

The fur industry consists of a long chain of players. Before reaching the end consumer, fur pelts pass through fur skin buyers and brokers at international fur auction houses, dressers, designers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers. The hours of skilled handiwork throughout every stage of this process are the major component in the final cost of a fur garment.

Before the fur can be used it needs to be dressed first. Dressing is a chemical process, which makes skins softer and easier to sew while also preserving them so that they will not shed or rot. Once they have been dressed, most fur skins are toned or dyed in order to achieve the color shade desired by the designer. The original color is seldom preserved as such, but the clarity of the natural color is very important in determining the final result.

(www.stkl-fpf.fi Finnish Fur Breeder's Assocation) (www.ffs.fi Finnish Fur Sales)