Teddy Bears - What are they?

Teddies, irresistible, cuddly and generally popular. This is the outside, but what to wear inside? What are the substances filling and creaks in our favorite friends?

Substance

Over the years, bears have almost every material you can think of. The classic material was used and the bears for the first, the goat is mohair (Angora wool), the structure is realistic and is very resistant to pollution. Over the years, manufacturers experimentedwith other less expensive materials and in time of war, there was also a fiber fabric economic nettles! synthetic substances are the most commonly used substitutes for mohair, because they are washable and can be dyed in a rainbow of colors.

Balls

Many of the early findings bears were cut from felt or suede sometimes. This was, however, has suffered a material rather expensive for toys for children is simple. In 1930, a cheap substitute called Rexine used. This wasOil-cloth, however, was subject to breakage. natural leather and velvet were also used. More recently, measurements were made of plush, either taken within the arts or with different color inserts. Is usually used today for the plastic washable.

Filling

filling Excelsior was the first and still in use for many years. Since 1918, kapok, a fiber shaft Soft pods of kapok was popular, while in the second World War BearsEconomy was filling, for example, waste from cotton mills or cut socks. Today, many fillings are washable, they are for obvious reasons and polyester fiber and plastic pellets very popular.

Features

The eyes were made of wood, shoe button eyes. glass eyes were available and the first were made of blown glass, imported from Germany. But these were expensive, and found to be cheaper to just paint the color on the back of the glass.The eyes were initially with a metal hook, but after the second World War led to the development of the eyes of today's security plastic, the back secured with a washer.

Nasi was the most difficult to achieve satisfactory function, such as plastic and leather were too hard, so that, finally, of hand-embroidered nose was found more frequently. This is a useful reference point for a bear to the constructor as several companies favored various forms and types of suture. TodayToys usually have lock-in safety data sheets of plastic, and 'bear collectors are more noses are hand stitched traditional.

Ports have traditionally sewn by hand, usually with a single line from the center of the nose, ending in an inverted "V". Changing the shape of "V" can withstand a full expression of a beautiful smile change to a reflection or cross-face.

Joints

The first bears could move his head andarts and had inserted a card or metal plate on both sides of the joint with a pin and secured with a small metal ring. plastic chopsticks replace metal pins in 1940 and today arrived in cardboard long been replaced by plastic obsolete, hardboard joints, although some artists are still used for bears.

Creaking and Growler

Squeaking teddy bears were tried in a strange contraption consisting of a tube and aBag Oilcloth has been tested. But the Growler is a tendency to produce the recognized voice of the "true Teddy Bear." Growler, including cardboard tubes with a syringe into a tube. When the bear is on a weight from one side to open the bellows, and if stood upright again, the air is released slowly, growling noises give realistic. The same principle is used in DevonBear teddy bears today, some seen, which may be atDesigns for a wide range of products including aprons http://www.devonbeardesigns.com/prod6.asp?prod_id=3340&id=266&sub_cat=579&grpid=3340&msg=&offset [=] and greeting cards [http://www.devonbeardesigns. com / prod6.asp? prod_id = 3344 & id = 272 & sub_cat = 581 & grpid = 3344 & msg = & offset =].