Originally Posted By: DAALong time ago, guy I know, got some coyotes tanned then sewed them on to the outside of a Carhartt jacket. It didn't look too bad actually. He hardly ever wore it though, said it was honestly just too warm for our weather in Utah.
Another friend, long time ago, he was big time into fur harvest, put up over 100 coyotes a year for many years, he had full length coyote fur coats made professionally for him and his wife. Can't remember how much they cost, but it was a lot. That's with him providing the fur, they still cost a lot.
Anyway... The expensive coats, ten, fifteen years later, kind of dry rotted out. He said he had learned that coyote fur might be okay for trim but for whatever reason it didn't work out so good as the main article?
Dunno... Sure there are details in the tanning and manufacture that make a big difference. I do know there is such a thing as a "garment tan" for items being used to make coats and such and Blaine's coats were garment tanned coyote. They didn't hold up all that great for how bloody expensive they were to have made though.
Home made though, heck, why not!
- DAA
my mom used to be into fur coats back in the 80's. She had a fox coat I believe. it was white though. In the off season it had to be stored properly, so she would take it to them and they would do some sort of maintenance on it and store it in a climate controlled room. The idea of just sticking it in a closet at home was something my mom would not do or the furior, I think they were called would ever do. Maybe that is why the coyote coats went to crap.