Our Faux Fur Fabric Pile Length Summary Guide

Hopefully this guide will help you shop for and order the best faux fur for your needs. This guide is not laid out by sub-category like our store. Instead we’ve gone through all our faux fur and laid them out for your by pile length as your primary filter. Your project may not require a specific color or pattern and instead you’d much rather identify a fabric that you do not need to shave or that you’d like have a specific pile length.

All the lengths here are not exact measurements and the fabric may vary a bit even within its own category family. Still, this is an accurate representation of our product lineup and the manufacturing specifications we send.

Less than 1 Inch

Faux Fur Leopard Cheetah Animal Long Pile Fabric – (0.5 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Stripe French Tissavel Fabric – (0.5 inch pile length)
Half Shag Faux Fur Fabric (Beaver) (Knit Backing) – (0.5 inch pile length)
Half Shag Faux Fur Fabric (Beaver) – (0.5 inch pile length)
Leopard Half Shag Beaver Faux Fur Fabric – (0.5 inch pile length)

1 Inches

Short Shag Faux Fur Fabric – (1 inch pile length)
Himalaya Camouflage Fur Fabric – (1 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Animal Short Pile Coat Costume Fabric / Forest Deer / Sold By The Yard – (1 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Fabric / NightDream / Sold By The Yard – (1 inch pile length)

Faux Fur Animal Short Pile Coat Costume Fabric / Canadian Lynx / Sold By The Yard – (1.5 inch pile length)
Faux Fur 3 Tone Rainbow Shiny Tinsel Long Pile Fabric – (1.5 inch pile length)
Faux Fur 3 Tone Zig Zag Long Pile Fabric – (1.5 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Spiked Shaggy Long Pile Fabric – (1.5 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Brick Rectangle Long Pile Fur Fabric – (1.5 inch pile length)

Faux Fur Solid Shaggy Long Pile Fabric – (1.5” – 2” pile length)
Faux Fur Animal Short Pile Coat Costume Fabric / Indian Jaguar / Sold By The Yard – (1.5” – 2” pile length)
Striped Lollipop / Sold By The Yard – (1.5” – 2” pile length)

Faux Fur Frosted Mongolian Long Pile Fabric – (1.5 – 2.5” pile length)

Faux Fur 2 Two Tone Striped Long Pile Fabric – (1.8” – 2.3” pile length)
Rainbow 1 / Sold By The Yard – (1.8” – 2.3” pile length)

2 Inches

Faux Fur Animal Short Pile Coat Costume Fabric / Rottweiler / Sold By The Yard – (2 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Animal Short Pile Coat Costume Fabric / Russian Arctic Husky / Sold By The Yard – (2 inch pile length)
Dire Wolf / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (2 inch pile length)
Latte Dire Wolf / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (2 inch pile length)
Apollo Wolf Gray / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (2 inch pile length)
Apollo Wolf Pink / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (2 inch pile length)
Mountain Wolf / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (2 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Feathered Bird Long Pile Fabric – (2 inch pile length)
Candy Shag Faux Fur Fabric – (2 inch pile length)
Frozen Shag Faux Fur Long Pile Fabric – (2 inch pile length)
Galaxy Shaggy Faux Fur Fabric – (2 inch pile length)
Raven Bird Shaggy Faux Fur Fabric – (2 inch pile length)
Siberian Husky Animal Faux Fur Fabric Black/Gray / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (2 inch pile length)
UV Reactive Solid Shaggy Faux Fur Fabric – (2 inch pile length)

Red Fox / Sold By The Yard/EcoshagTM – (2 – 2.25 inch pile length)
Tribal Multi Color Costume Coat Faux Fur Fabric – (2 – 2.25 inch pile length)

Canadian Fox / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (2 – 3 inch pile length)

Faux Fur Animal Short Pile Coat Costume Fabric / Antique Bird / Sold By The Yard – (2.5 inch pile length)
Tundra Wolf / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (2.5 inch pile length)
Arctic Wolf / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (2.5 inch pile length)
Baby Tundra Wolf (New Lot) / Sold By The Yard/EcoshagTM – (2.5 inch pile length)
Eurasian Wolf / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (2.5 inch pile length)
Honey Wolf (Second Quality Goods) / Sold By The Yard/EcoshagTM – (2.5 inch pile length)
Honey Wolf / Sold By The Yard/EcoshagTM – (2.5 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Arctic Alaskan Husky Long Pile Fabric – (2.5 inch pile length)

3 Inches

Faux Fur Animal Short Pile Coat Costume Fabric / Lynx Cat / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (3 inch pile length)
EcoshagTM Fireworks Shaggy Faux Fur Long Pile Fabric – (3 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Animal Coat Costume Fabric / Lab Husky / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (3 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Animal Short Pile Coat Costume Fabric / Wildcat (New Lot) / Sold By The Yard – (3 inch pile length)
Fire Wolf / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (3 inch pile length)
Wolf / Sold By The Yard/EcoshagTM – (3 inch pile length)
Timber Wolf / Sold By The Yard/EcoShagTM – (3 inch pile length)
Hybrid Wolf / Sold By The Yard/EcoshagTM – (3 inch pile length)
Siberian Husky Animal Faux Fur Fabric Burgundy – (3 inch pile length)
Siberian Husky Animal Faux Fur Fabric Purple – (3 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Solid Mongolian Long Pile Fabric – (3 inch pile length)
Faux Fur Solid Shiny Tinsel Long Pile Fabric – (3 inch pile length)
Multi-Color Alpaca Faux Fur Fabric – (3 inch pile length)
Shaggy Sabrewulf Faux Fur Fabric – (3 inch pile length)
Solid Arctic Fox Fur Fabric – (3 inch pile length)

Faux Fur 3 Tone Rainbow Long Pile Fabric – (3.5 inch pile length)

Faux Fur Animal Long Pile Alaska Rainbow Fabric – (3 – 4 inch pile length)

4 or more inches

Faux Fur Solid Gorilla Animal Long Pile Fabric – (4 inch pile length)
Monster Faux Fur Fabric – (4 inch pile length)

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Rustic Fox / Sold By The Yard – (.5 to 4 inch pile length)

All of these faux furs are available for sale by the yard and many receive additional wholesale pricing when you order 5 or more yards at a time. Additionally, if your project is not pile length, color, pattern, backing, or any otherwise attribute-specific then you should sign up for our newsletter and keep an eye out for our faux fur scrap boxes that go on sale every so often as it becomes available.

Hopefully this guide is helpful. As always our support team is available to answer your questions if you still have them. We love interacting on our website and/or social media so please come over and ask a question.

Why does faux fur pile length matter?

Faux Fur allows a designer to choose exactly the fabric they have imagined for their project. Usually the first thing that you need to figure out is what kind of look you’re going for. If you want something realistic that mimics real animal fur then your choice of pile length you need to choose will depend on the actual fur’s length. We provide a wide array of Animal Faux Furs just for these purposes; including those that mimic popular animal faux furs as well as patterns and styles that might not have a real-world doppelganger of (we just think they look cool!)
But let’s assume you’re not trying to make a realistic Lynx Cat faux fur jacket but rather you are looking for a solid or unique patterned faux fur. In these cases you might know which pile length to choose.

Longer pile faux fur may not be as “dense” as shorter pile faux fur: Very long pile lengths, which we would say are those over 2.5 inches, may not be as dense as shorter pile faux furs. Why? One reason is that the long fibers inherently create a full look simply because there is so much material on the face of the fabric meaning manufacturing doesn’t require as dense of fibers throughout the fabric. Another reason why very long piles may not be a dense is cost. Manufacturing long fibers is more difficult and therefore more expensive but also there is more mass in a square inch of space meaning shipping weight would be much higher for a yard of very long pile faux fur vs shorter piled faux fur. For these reasons, often times, you should assume a very long pile faux fur is less “dense” most likely. This is important if you intend to shave the fibers to a custom length or have a project that is sensitive to exposed backing material potentially being seen.
Shave-ability: If you plan to shave your faux fur you will need to start with a pile length that is longer than you need, of course. But also, as mentioned above, starting at a longer pile may mean your shaving results in exposed backing in some use-cases. Be sure to inquire about how dense the faux fur is and examine the fabric weight. A higher fabric weight might signify a denser pile that will shave better.
Care & Durability: Longer pile faux furs will inevitably need more care and washing than shorter pile faux furs. More debris and gunk can get caught in the long fibers. While you can carefully wash your faux fur it may be necessary to take greater care with a longer fiber to avoid matting, damage to the fibers, and tangles.