I can now tell you definitely that black bears are–well, wait a minute here.
I once spun yak hair–not soft yak undercoat–and made a doormat. A small doormat; the fibers about ripped the skin off my hands and jammed in my wheel and I didn’t get very far out of a project I’d started out of sheer curiosity over the novelty of it.
Black bear fur? Â The animal’s right there, and we’re all yakking away.
More later.