Sunday, 5 of September of 2010

Colours, Fabrics & Measuring

Fleece Padding Colours to choose from:

Patterned: (left to right:) tiger / multi-stripe / cow print / blue stripes / candy stripe / pink flowers,  ALSO blue flowers / pink camo / green camo

Pale Shades: (tend to be  a littler paler than represented here) lilac / pink / baby blue / fluffy cream / lemon

Darker Shades: red / chocolate / mid blue / black / burgundy / ivy green


10mm Webbing Colours:

red / black / royal blue / sky blue / purple / lavender / raspberry / pink / ALSO emerald green

20mm Webbing Colours:

red / black / burgundy / royal blue / green / blue with reflective strip / sky blue / purple / pink / ALSO raspberry

25mm Webbing Colours:

red / black / burgundy / royal blue / sky blue / pink / lavender / purple

Bandana Dog Collar Fabrics:

You can choose from these fabrics to go on any colour or width of webbing collar.

Pirate Bandanas: pink crossbones / aqua crossbones / red pirate / pink pirate / black pirate

green camo / pink camo / blue bones / blue spotty / red spotty / pink with black polkadots / black cherry / blue cherries

lilac daisies / blue daisies / pink daisies / pink hearts / candy stripe


Limited stock: dice / halloween / green snowflake / yellow flowers / xmas hats

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Colours may be slightly different to the shades you see here – I do my best to represent the colours but photos, dyelots  and computer screens vary! Also the textures of the different webbings and fleece colours vary a bit as well.


Measuring for Collars:

I suggest you measure your dogs neck a couple of times just to make sure you get the right measurement. You need to insert two fingers between the neck and the measuring tape when you measure – this will give a comfortable and not too tight fit.  With a tiny dog sometimes 1 finger is enough – use your judgement. It can help to have someone to hold your dog while you measure, if he is wriggly!

If you don’t have a measuring tape, use a piece of string and then measure the string against a ruler.

Measuring an existing collar:

Its better to measure the dogs neck, but if you need to measure an existing collar instead, first make sure the collar is set to a comfortable fit for the dog, lay it out flat on a table, undone.

Buckled collars - measure from the centre of the buckle (where the tongue is joined) along the collar, to the centre of the hole that is used to do up the collar on the dog normally.


Quick Release Buckle collars – measure from the top of the solid (female) part of the buckle, along the length and stop at the point where the webbing folds around the pronged (male) part of the buckle – do NOT include the pronged buckle part in your measurement.


Collar Widths: To get an idea of which width of collar is best for your dog, it can help to cut a strip of paper the same width as the collars and try it on your dog to see how it looks.

10mm collars are 25mm in total width, with padding

20mm collars are 35mm in total width

25mm collars are 45mm in total width