Conservation and restoration of fur objects made from keratin, which is also the protein that makes up skin, feathers, nails, hooves, claws, and horns. "The way I think a lot of people understand fur versus hair is in the density of follicles," says Ross McPhee, Curator of the Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History. "So for fur-bearing animals—which were converted into coats and so-forth—people always wanted it to be something that was very dense, so there’s the idea therefore that fur is dense, and it certainly is in [the] kinds of fur-bearers that we use for this purpose. Whereas hair is not
The Hair and Skin Trading Company Up and Then Forgetting Them". Mackay and Webb played several gigs around London with Tony Irving in a free noise / jazz band called Unity Gain,releasing a lathe cut L.P in Jan 2014 titled "Sounds from the Room" playing the Dublin Castle,London in June 2014 . Webb continues to make music under the name Micro / Nigel Webb and Digital Signal Recordings with a number of new projects in progress. The Hair and Skin Trading Company The Hair and Skin Trading Company is a British drone / avant-noise group, formed in 1991 by ex-Loop members Neil Mackay (vocals/bass) and John