"Alan Edwards" wrote in message
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I bought some racoon tails a long time ago for cheap, thinking surely
there
was a pattern that used racoon tail. I've not yet found any - can anyone
name some? I've used it a little as a substitute material, but everything
I've done with it so far has seemed...not quite right.

Several patterns in books of the 1960s called
for "monga ringtail", and these black and white striped
monkey tails were then sold by dealers. The colour contrast
in natural raccoon tails seems less, but they might be
good enough for such patterns.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)