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The Panther
Copper cat-o-nine tails
An electrically conductive, yet SOFT-AS-LEATHER violet wand cat-o-nine-tails that you can use with violet wand Indirect techniques and/or as a full impact toy



This gorgeous impact toy will take an honored place among your floggers and whips and you'll reach for it again and again for its knotted claws. Its a real cat-o-nine-tails that is incredibly elegant and fully functional. The satin black handle is weighted at the butt end for counterbalance and the 9 soft copper tails are flexible and mean. This accessory is a brand new product in violet wand play, and utilizes a metal bullion thread technology that has been unexplored for violet wand use until now.

This is not a substandard mylar flogger that will suffer burn out spots. In fact, its not mylar at all. Rather, its a significant addition to your arsenal designed for years of enjoyment.

The secret to this outstanding piece of equipment is in the manufacture of its tails. In the making of this metal bullion thread, a layer of real copper is drawn out and wound over a fabric thread during spinning. This results in a metal thread that is 60% real copper metal over 40% fabric thread, so it isn't even "mylar" or "metallicized thread", but real metal over fabric. Yet it remains extremely flexible just like regular thread. Then the threads are bundled together into three strands, and the three stands are twisted tightly together to make a cord. Thus each corded tail on this cat is made of hundreds of real copper-coated threads twisted together to create an incredibly strong, wonderfully conductive, and amazingly soft cat. The particular style of corded metal thread that we use is called a toursade and has a long history as bullion decoration on formal military uniforms. You can read a bit more about the history of metal thread below.

What you get is a flogger that acts and reacts just like your best leather floggers, and yet is fully electrically conductive to use it with a violet wand. Swish it lightly and sparks erupt from all its kitten-soft ends. Strike firmly, and you get electrified impact. Or use the pointed end on the rear of the handle to draw a single, intensely heated spark! 60% real copper, not party mylar. Real striking impact, not just swishing it about. Real flexibility, not metallic stiffness. And real elegance, not silly colored Christmas tinsel or a modified party decoration. This is a violet wand accessory of the highest quality.

Each tail is 1/2" centimeter in width. In beta-testing of this product, we found that good striking with this cat does not break the ends of the copper threads, even after repeated series of strikes against a wooden bench. The strikes against the bench did soften the knots and complete the unraveling of the ends up to the knots, which created an additional, nice tickling softness to the ends. In field trials, medium impact produced reddening and welts and hard impact produced raised welts. The electricity was found to be conducted consistently all the way to the ends of the threads, so the frayed ends could be lightly brushed on skin while sparking. The entire handle is electrically conductive, so that the violet wand charge will be conducted during any Indirect or Reverse vw technique and from any holding positon of the cat.


Of course, gold bullion thread is as expensive as its name implies. We have chosen copper for its superior conductivity and reasonable cost, so that you may add to your toybox with quality. We also offer a lighter, scaled down version with 5 tails to offer you a price option. The 5 tailed violet wand copper cat (the Lynx) functions exactly the same and is similar in appearance and manufacture, but has a sharper sting due to fewer tails to spread out the force of the strike.


The Panther: 9 tailed violet wand cat
Price____$52


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The Lynx: 5 tailed violet wand cat
Price____$45


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Some history of metal thread.
The earliest metal thread was a silver wire covered with a layer of gold, which could be drawn thinner and thinner and still retain its gold coating. The thread could also be hammered flat and wound around a silk core for couching (Japanese threads, Passing threads and Rococco), or it could be spun and drawn through a series of holes in diminishing sizes until the thread was fine enough to wind into bullions. The different textured threads were appealing not only for their colour but for the interesting effect the light played on the threads when the threads were sewn over padding.

The Middle ages brought the greatest use of metal threads in the use on Church embroidery vestments in what was known as Opus Anglicanum or English Work. The whole backgrounds of these vestments were worked in underside couching using silver gilt threads.

A new technique called OrNue came into production in Europe in the fifteenth century and was used on many vestments, military uniforms and royal furnishings. The gold thread was couched in two strands across the design, with the design lines picked out with the couching thread.

In the Elizabethan period, gold threads also came to be used on domestic embroideries, particularly on items of blackwork and silkwork.

During the eighteenth century Baroque and Roccoco periods, metal threads were used extensively on the very ornate costumes in the English and European courts.

OrNue made a revival in the twentieth century using metal threads in church embroidery, and metalwork embroidery is still used on uniforms, in organizational crests and insignia, and other highly ceremonial items.


a fine example of gold bullion embroidery

our copper bullion cat tails

a modern silver bullion crest