> The killer’s penchant for decapitation, necrophilia, cutting off body parts, keeping victims’ organs in jars, and creating homemade chairs, masks, and lampshades with their skin became an essential component of the visceral terror portrayed in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of The Lambs.
If you put aside all the depravity, it’s pretty impressive he was able to make all that stuff from human skin. I imagine it’s not all that easy to work with as a material.
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He was just trying to save face.
For the unititiated:
> The killer’s penchant for decapitation, necrophilia, cutting off body parts, keeping victims’ organs in jars, and creating homemade chairs, masks, and lampshades with their skin became an essential component of the visceral terror portrayed in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of The Lambs.
[Source](https://allthatsinteresting.com/ed-gein-house)
If you put aside all the depravity, it’s pretty impressive he was able to make all that stuff from human skin. I imagine it’s not all that easy to work with as a material.