Sponxx:
You REALLY need to make up your mind about skins and taxidermy BEFORE the skinners put blade to hide.
The reason is where and how they will make their cuts. For example on a zebra flat skin for a rug, they will make the main body cut up the mid-line of the belly from the tip of the tail all the way up to the underside to the bottom lip.
IF you want a head/shoulder mount, they will use a string around the circumference of the body behind the shoulders and make their initial cut around the body following that string line. Then they will cut up along the mid-line of the mane. This way when the hide is put back over the poly "frame" the stitches will be hidden in the mane. You'll also have a "back skin" that you can have made into something else.
Once the hide is cut for one or the other, it's pretty much too late to change your mind. The skinning process for all PG regarding head/shoulder mounts vs flat skins pretty much holds true to this. Just used the zebra as the best/easiest/most obvious example.
One more species that make very good flat skin rugs are red h/b. Very soft on bare feet. We've got one on each side of the bed on hardwood flooring. No felt backing and they've held up VERY well for nearly 10-years due to just mostly bare feet on them.
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