It was in 2012 when Claire discovered Angora bunnies. As a studied fashion designer she was looking for a simpler life in the german countryside and very quickly fell in love with the "Seidenhase" (silky rabbit), as the Angora Bunny was called in Germany centuries ago.

With a tiny house and a small garden not offering enough space for keeping alpacas or sheep the Angoras were a compromise first. But soon the great advantages of rabbit wool came to show. Not only that the bunnies produce fibres of highest quality - because of their undemanding lifestyle they are ideal to realize the idea of true organic production. In 2015, Andreas took over as a boss, giving Claire more space as creative head of seidenhase.

The Angora bunny is surely one of the world's little wonders:
The wool of those cute rabbits is incredibly soft and much warmer than sheep wool. The german Angoras are world renown for the high quality of the fibers and give the best results in the climate they were originally bred in.

The fibers of our own and a few other handpicked fellow breeders are the basis for our products: supersoft handspun wool, exclusively for "seidenhase.de" machine spun skeins from one of the last traditional german spinning mills, felted products like loop-scarfs and shawls. Fibers too short for spinning are used for felting – so none of the materials have to be thrown away.

Another specialty are our handmade "Loopsters" for our shawls - clips that can be tightenend without pinching the delicate material. For the full-blown blacksmith Andreas, who is now working as a journalist and has only little time for his old job a more than welcome opportunity to work some metal again.

For us, it is important to mention that our animals are not harmed in any way during the process. In the U.S. and other countries it is believed that Angora bunnies should only be held on metal grids. We keep our rabbits in small groups in free run enclosures and only made the best experiences with that kind of keeping.

In the summer months, the rabbits are mainly fed with fresh hay from the surrounding fields and the „letftovers“ of a local organic vegetable farm.

Our Angoras are shorn with usual scissors. In the process they feel no stress or pain, they stay very calm and don't need to be fixed or forced into holding still. Afterwards, they are visibly relieved when they're freed from the thick wool.

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At www.seidenhase.de you can find pictures of our enclosures and our rabbits whom we introduce personally.
Do check out our website, we often have skeins made completely from the wool of one individual rabbit – your chance to get your own 100% „Sai Baba“, „Loki“ or „Norbert“. :-)