Just laid out most of my roadkill skins with an eye to making a coat. Problem is, I hate to cut off the faces, especially foxes, Bobcats. May just pin together, keep rearranging…just think, these were just all going to rot on road…
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Have a leather vest custom made with selected pelts on the front as panels.
I only hit 2 of these 20 or so animals…
Lloyd, I have the idea that I have seen pictures of coats made out of entire pelts (head/tail included),and they were often pieced together with heads at the bottom? Maybe it is easier to configure?
this is the only link I could find somewhat showing same.
http://www.ioffer.com/i/the-fox-fur-vest-the-whole-belt-head-fox-coat-vest-608914268?i=275108076
The other idea I had, maybe it would be easier to make mukluks out of them?
Your blog is the first thing I check on the computer … and it often sends me off exploring or, in this case, revisiting. Thus, just finished listening to Jean Craighead George's My Side of the Mountain with Christian Rummel's pitch-perfect narration. I used to assume that all kids dreamt of running away to the woods. Anyway, I post this in the (unlikely) event you didn't already read it when it first came out in 1959.
Is that a grey house cat at the bottom? What's the spotted brown one?
Grey one is squirrel. Spotted one on lower right is spotted skunk. No house cats!