Angora Past: A Very Old Angora Book

Since I started raising English Angora in 1982, I either actively collected or people gifted me many old books about Angora.  This is an old one.

This book was published in the UK at Bradford.   Bradford is still the center for rabbit shows and the Furs and Feathers Magazine today.   Interestingly enough this book does not have a publication date.   

This is one of the bunny pictures in the book.

Though there's no publication date, we can infer that the book was published in the mid to late 1940s as the standard for Angora was recognized in February 1946.

The standard was quite detailed, these are the second and third page of the standard.

Page 20 is the 4th page of the standard.  We'll find the sentence "Wool quality as silky as possible..." is very similar to the wordings used in the US standard for English Angora all the way into the 1990s.   Or we should say that the US standard took after the old UK standard for quite a long time.  

Here are some photos about grooming and an article about hand spinning.

This is the back cover showing the publish list of the Fur & Feathers magazine.   By the way, I checked the Fur and Feathers magazine website, none of these books including this old Angora book is currently available anymore.