Collecting Eiderdown                   

In may we start collecting eiderdown. Hormone changes in the female bird causes the down to loosen from the birds chest and they put it in the nest. We collect the down and put grass in to the bottom of their nest late in the breeding process.

This is very important because grass drains water out of the nest.

The birds female and male take their down and put it into the nest on top of the dry grass. Then we wait until they hatch and then we take all the down and putt more grass instead, if necessary. The young birds grow fast and after two days they leave the nest and go down to the ocean.

Sterilizing and cleaning Eiderdown              

We clean the eiderdown by sterilize,

 heating it up to 120- C in 6 hours, to kill all bacteria in it.

Next, we clean the eiderdown in a machine who takes out all the grass and dirt in it. The next step is to put the down in another machine who takes out most of the feathers. The last step is to clean the down in our hands. We try too find dirt who the machines have not found, and throw it out. Then then the cleaning process is finished, and the down is totally clean, and ready too bee sold.

Comforters filled with Eiderdown              

We sell Eiderdown directly to you in grams or kilos. We produce Eiderdown Silk Comfort. On the picture is an Comfort (1,4x2,0m) with 1,3 kg of Eiderdown.  We take Spesial order and reqeusts.

There is also a very limited world supply of eiderdown each year, in the region of 2500 kilos and it is diminishing yearly. An eiderdown comforter, therefore is considered to be an heirloom.

   Eider down is the best insulator for regulating body temperature -

no sweating, no freezing. 

The wild Eider duck is only found in the most northerly regions of the North Atlantic, principally in Iceland (70%), but also in Canada and Norway. The climatic condition under which these rare birds have survived, has given rise to a kind of down and subsequent insulating power which is off the scale in terms of what we usually think of in terms of "fill power", the usual measure of thermal insulating quality.

Security when selling Eiderdown              

Selling products of Eiderdown                            

I'm selling mainly Eiderdown directly to Factors

and 

Comforters  to everyone

Special orders and requests about Quilts,  silk- or Cotton Comforters or Dyner
Please feel free to send us any questions or wishes you might have and we will do our best to assist you in any way possible.  < Silk Comforter, Katharina sand  with 6x8 Send us an e-mail:          leif-myr@online.no     Comforters
typical dimensions      silk / Cotton comforter:	Eiderdown	width	length	makingup	PRICE   CIF
	1000-800gr	135cm	200cm	cassettes
	1200-900gr	135cm	220cm	cassettes
	1500-1800gr	200	220cm	cassettes
Baby Quilts	350-250gr	70cm	100cm	cassettes
made up with	tuck:
		- inside buffle	- outside buffle

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Eiderdown exporter and member of Eiderdownsfarmers Union in
Iceland.

Æðarræktarfélag Austurlands

Landbúnaðarstofnunin

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