AR member Colin Castelli's Hyena Rug Restoration

08 April 2013, 02:44

Mary Hilliard-Krueger

Initial head mounting and rugging done by another taxidermist. The hyena was not stretched flat, the paws were not properly shaped and the border was a faux leather hot glued onto the skin.
Below are pictures of the transformation after re-stretching the skin flat, reshaping the paws and attaching a beautiful scalloped grade A leather border with an industrial sewing machine.
The flanks were touched up by airbrush to blend with the skins show side.

Before picture of poor quality border and backing work:

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Mary's Rugmaking
halflingrugger@cox.net

Taxidermist/Rugmaker

08 April 2013, 12:20

Colin Castelli

Mary,

I think I actually forgot to email you and thank you for the work. Thanks for the work.

I agree with LittleJoe, it is much better now than originally.

It is actually amazing to me looking at the before and after pics.

This is the second rug Mary has done for me; on original and this repair. If you want a rug done right, let Mary do it!

Colin

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