We finally got our trophies back from our hunt 2 years ago in Namibia. Everything is hung up except our skins. We have 2 Zebra skins, a Hartman's and a Burchell's mounted on felt. They are big and heavy. How do people hang them on their walls?

Mine is on the floor. After a year of two kids, a dog, and a vacume it's doing pretty well. I just don't have room on the wall.

CB

My zebra rug is on the floor in the vestibule. It gets walked on every day by everybody. A simple vaccuuming seems to keep in in good shape.

Mark

If you want to hang it on the wall you can use heavy duty tacks or small nails.

My wife's Burchell's Zebra skin (felt backed and stuffed with just a small amount of filling) is hung on the entry wall of our home. We were surprised at how much real estate it covered!

Any good-sized hardware store will sell colored finishing nails in white and black. I gently hammered them through the skin and backing at the top of the hide and through the felt backing only at the sides and bottom. It is working well and the colored nails virtually disappear against the hide and the black backing.

One recommendation I'd make is to secure the top of the hide to the wall, then let the skin hang for a couple of weeks before securing the sides and bottom. That way things have some time to stretch and settle.

I tried hanging mine on the wall with just tacks/staples, but it never would lay flat. I bought a 4x8 sheet of hardboard (about 1/8" thick but very rigid) and cut it to the shape of the top of the rug. Then, stapled the felt under the skin to the hardboard. Then I just hung the hardboard with a couple of drywall screws, and the skin just draped flat against the wall.

I have used thumb tacks painted black just in the felt... Takes two people... or finish nails through the hide. both work.
Aaron

We have a Hartmann's zebra and a black bear on our walls with Velcro. We use industrial self-adhesive Velcro, hook side, 2" wide cut in roughly 6" strips and stuck to the wall. It takes a bunch of them and we have found each on the floor after a few years.
It was trial and error. The good thing is, there are no holes in the hides. They hang from the felt stuck to the hooks in the Velcro. It was suggested by my taxidermist and I'm happy with the system.
It takes two people to do it and you'll have to re-paint for sure if you take them down or move them, but you'd probably have to any other way.

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Originally posted by Camarillo Brillp:
We finally got our trophies back from our hunt 2 years ago in Namibia. Everything is hung up except our skins. We have 2 Zebra skins, a Hartman's and a Burchell's mounted on felt. They are big and heavy. How do people hang them on their walls?

You must take the skin of the Zebra they will be much lighter