No garage? No problem. Tan your next deer hide for less than 30 bucks in your own bathroom. If I can do it inside a fifth-floor Manhattan matchbox apartment, it can be done anywhere. Gather a knife, a ...
Before the advent of chemical tanning of hides to make leather, animal skins were subjected to all kinds of strange concoctions to degrease and soften them. Urine, wood ashes, tree bark acid, and even ...
Learning how to tan a deer hide is a rite of passage, cementing blood ties to our hunting forebearers who depended upon skins for warmth and who respected slain animals by never letting any part go to ...
You’re not a fur trader, so many of the terms—hide, skin, fur, pelt, and buckskin—used to describe the outer coat of wild game animals may seem interchangeable. (And frankly, a lot of them are.) But ...
The smartest way to produce unique and durable traditional leather products is to treat the hide with smoke and animal brains, a Winnipeg hide-tanning expert says. "We're basically tanning hides the ...
Tanning in the traditional way is not for the faint of heart. It takes twelve days to scrape, soak, wring out and smoke moose and deer hides to get them ready, Clyde Migwans of M'Chigeeng First Nation ...
The smartest way to produce unique and durable traditional leather products is to treat the hide with smoke and animal brains, a Winnipeg hide-tanning expert says. "We're basically tanning hides the ...
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