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Beaver Fur In The 1800s

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The fur trade started off as a supplement to the fishing industry. When a wide-brimmed felted furry hat came into fashion in the seventeenth century. There was an insatiable demand for beaver pelts. The beaver fur assured that it would make the perfect felters and hatters. Beaver fur was made up of two different kinds of hairs or filaments. The first one consisted of soft under-fur of beaver that the strands of which had tiny barbs that produced the felt to stay flat and thin. The second one consisted of hair in the beaver’s pelt were rough and long, they were known as the guard hairs. The guard hairs played a vital role in assuring the North Americans not just in catching the beaver but by taking it pelts away. The beaver that had its guard
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