Furriers use the pelts to make jackets, coats, and hats.
Karakuls are lean and have narrow backs. They can store up enough fat in their tails and back legs to live on when food is scarce. The coarse fleece of the adult is white, yellowish, gray, brown, or black. Young Karakul lambs have a silky fleece, which in most cases is black. But it can be brown, tan, or gray.