Giraffe hide as bedspread?

[Fredrik]

Hi all!

I'm looking into a giraffe hunt for 2025 and I had the idea of making a bedspread of the giraffe hide (something like 2,4x2,4 meter which seems doable from what I could find regarding sizes of skins).

I'm thinking it would be a pretty cool way to ise the skin, but, will it be to hard and/or heavy? I'm never come across a giraffe hide in the past. I had this idea with my bison skin and that one is a bit on the heavy side but mainly the bison I shot was a tad to small to make it work properly.

Any thoughts?

 

[K-man]

Hi all!

I'm looking into a giraffe hunt for 2025 and I had the idea of making a bedspread of the giraffe hide (something like 2,4x2,4 meter which seems doable from what I could find regarding sizes of skins).

I'm thinking it would be a pretty cool way to ise the skin, but, will it be to hard and/or heavy? I'm never come across a giraffe hide in the past. I had this idea with my bison skin and that one is a bit on the heavy side but mainly the bison I shot was a tad to small to make it work properly.

Any thoughts?

I have a giraffe hide that is tanned I purchased. The hair is a bit too coarse for me to want as a spread next to me. Looks great on the stair rail!

 

[375Fox]

I wouldn’t. Possibly nice for a rug on the ground but definitely not a bed spread. You’d also likely need to hunt a cow or younger bull that still had a nice hide without too many scars instead of best trophy.

 

[Goat416]

I have a couple bull giraffe flat skins. The main body is roughly 2.25 meters square plus the neck that is approximately 1.5 meters long and ranges from just over a half meter wide to a little over a meter. They look great and love mine as a flat skin. The hide is double the thickness of my zebra flat skins at just shy of 4mm thick. It might be a little thick and stiff for a blanket. I would discuss the tan with the taxidermist and make sure they keep as much size as possible when they skin it. It is my experience they trim quite a bit when skinning and tanning.