Nitpick about Demiguises (and their pelts)

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22818

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> pbnesbit at m... wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've got a nit to pick with Newt Scamander (I'm also hoping that 
this
> > will qualify me as a L.O.O.N member).
> >
> > In Fantastic Beasts, under the entry for Demiguises it states that
> > 'Demiguise pelts are highly valuable as the hair may be spun into
> > Invisibility Cloaks.'
> >
> > Here's my nitpick: you don't spin pelts into anything.  You 
*weave*
> > them into things like Invisibility Cloaks.  (And to further 
nitpick,
> > you don't spin *pelts* without first processing them--like wool.)
> 
> Jeez. You city folks. I'm betting, myself, that Newt didn't think he
> needed to state the obvious. A pelt is a skin with the fur/hair 
still
> on. And only fur/hair is spun into anything. So presumably to make a
> cloak, the first step in processing is to take the pelt that 
someone has
> brought you, remove the fur/hair from the skin, do whatever you do 
with
> depilated demiguise skins, spin the fur/hair, and weave the cloak.
> 
> But the basic thing harvested from the demiguise would be the pelt. 
You
> skin it and take the skin to whoever weaves these things. Either 
that,
> or you take the whole dead animal. So "pelt" is the basic demiguise
> product that is then used in the process of weaving cloaks.
> 

Well, you have completely lost me on this weaving/spinning 
discussion, as I am hopelessly confused when it comes to anything 
resembling clothing-making.  What I am wondering is, how can you 
weave or spin or skin or sew or do anything to demiguise pelts?  
Arent they invisible?  Maybe they hire blind people to do the work, 
like a lot of photo labs hire blind people to feed film in developing 
machines -- the idea being that blind people are good at stuff that 
must be done only by feel.

--Joywitch, who failed sewing in the 8th grade because she sewed all 
4 sides of the pocket