page_title: List of types of fur
section_title: Golden jackal
hierarchical_section_title: List of types of fur / Golden jackal
caption_attribution_description: English: Common jackal fur skin (Canis aureus). Fur skin collection, Bundes-Pelzfachschule, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Deutsch: Goldschakal-Fell (Canis aureus). Aus der Fellsammlung der ehemaligen Bundes-Pelzfachschule (heute Frankfurter Schule für Bekleidung und Mode, Frankfurt/Main. Gesammelt unter Studiendirektor Ludwig Brauser. Derzeit eingelagert in den Räumen des Senckenbergmuseums, Frankfurt/Main
context_page_description: This list of types of fur describes the characteristics of types of fur used in fur clothing.
context_section_description: In Russia and other nations of the former Soviet Union, golden jackals are considered furbearers, albeit ones of low quality due to their sparse, coarse and monotonously coloured fur. Asiatic and Near Eastern jackals produce the coarsest pelts, though this can be remedied during the dressing process. As jackal hairs have very little fur fibre, their skins have a flat appearance. The softest furs come from Elburz in northern Iran. Jackals are known to have been hunted for their fur in the 19th century: in the 1880s, 200 jackals were captured annually in Mervsk. In the Zakatal area of the Trans-Caucasus, 300 jackals were captured in 1896. During that period, a total of 10,000 jackals had been taken within Russia, and were sent exclusively to the Nizhegorod fair. In the early 1930s, 20–25 thousand jackal skins were tanned annually in the Soviet Union, though the stocks were significantly underused, as over triple that amount could have been produced. Before 1949 and the onset of the Cold War, the majority of jackal skins were exported to the US. Despite their geographical variations, jackal skins are not graded according to a fur standard, and are typically used in the manufacture of cheap collars, women's coats and fur coats. Jackal fur is still valued by the Kazakh people along the Caspian shoreline, as it is lighter and warmer than sheepskin.
caption: Golden jackal pelt
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