Coat Textures Can someone give me good descriptions, or better yet pictures of the different coat textures: Wiry, woolly, cottony and silky? I would like to better understand the difference. Is one more desirable than the others, and at what age can you tell which they might be? Thank you! :) |
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Then you can get into a modified silk or a soft coat textures...but again it's so left up to interputation as to what others will tell you. This is all how I interpute the textures :) Donna |
Brooklynn, great post. I always said Derby had a cotton coat, but my husband would argue he had a silky coat. I, of course, felt I was right but after posting pictures on the board people are now telling me his hair looks silky. All be darned that a YT'er can see that from a picture on a short haired Yorkie! lol! You guys really are the best at what you do :) |
If you go to a hobby shop and get some embroidery thread, buy two types (wool and silk). Then take a few strands of each. Now wrap them tightly around your finger. See how the wool one looks - broken and frayed? And the silk one is smooth and shiny. That is how to tell the difference with a yorkie's coat - to label the texture. An old mentor told me this and I have heard it ever since. It works pretty well to understand it. A wooly or cottony coat will have a wave in it too when it is just washed and you are blowing out the coat. You will see lines that go against the coat. I hope this helps. It is so hard to tell for sure in photos. A silky coat will also feel and look like a satin ribbon - like girls wear in their hair when young. It will hang straight down, where a cotton coat is fuller and is puffy and won't shine as much if not at all. I hope this has helped. :) |
1 Attachment(s) P.S. Darby is still young and he may end up with a silky coat. You just will not know forsure till he is older. I found my girl's photo of her coat. Now this is just a quick shot of her - very casual. Not show pose or anything like that. She is not even brushed all out her. But her coat is super silky. She is also a champion. Maybe her photo might help in some way. |
I read in the book the Joy of Breeding your own show dog and Ann Searne explained this when looking at a puppy coat...the hair on the legs will be sparse and thin on a silky coat and a pup with puffy and full hair on the legs will usually turn out a cotton or a soft coat. I have found that to be true. Just like the light test in the eyes when you take their picture...if in the picture the eyes are green ( I think LOL ) you'll have a silky coat and if the eyes are red a soft to a cotton coat. Again, it's all up to interputation....what I would call a modified silk coat someone else will say it's pure silk and what I call a soft coat someone will say it's a modified silk...LOL...I can pick the faults in my own dogs and tell ya but some just won't admit to what they have....again it's all in interputation.. Donna |
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TopKnot -- VERY BEAUTIFUL!!! |
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Topknot--- thank you, thank you, thank you...... I have thought Joey was a silkie but never could find a shampoo to make his hair shine.. He is very soft and his hair is longer and thinner than my friends who has a wire haired yorkie. But when you described the thread differences, I now know he is a wooly coat. He has long hair but it lookes like he has alot of frayed hairs... Very helpful... and to the OP, thank you!!!! this is a very good post.... |
Back to part of the OP's original questions, which I don't think anyone has addressed: How old are they (generally) before you can tell what their adult coat texture will be? |
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