Ebbie, I for one am very interested in this sea otter blanket! Could you please give more details? Is it skins with the fur on, cured and softened? And does the fur 'shed' at all? And how many sea otters' skins to make the blanket? Most unusual and interesting! On St Kilda, a far-flung island 50 miles off the Outer Hebrides, the islanders used to make duvets from puffin feathers. They scaled the cliffs on ropes, dicing with death, to grab the baby puffins from their tunnel nests.(Conservationists wince!) Their down is apparently extra insulating. Man over the millennia has devised some very ingenious ways of keeping warm hasn't he? And if we keep getting these horribly cold winters, all ideas are welcome. I personally cannot function in the cold, I need heat and plenty of it!