Brain Tanning Course Details:
Dates: Jun 7-9, 2013
Duration: 9am Fri - 4pm Sun
Location: Monroe, WA
Instructor: Connor O'Malley
Cost: $250
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Believe it or not, all of our ancestors wore brain-tannedbuckskin. From primitive,hunter-gatherers to the early American pioneers, buckskin was a universalmaterial for clothing, rope, footwear, etc. In this three day course you will learn to transform a raw, somewhatunappealing deerskin into soft, luxurious buckskin.
Over three days we will scrape the skins clean, soak them ina bucking solution, rinse them, soak them in a brain solution and stretch themuntil they are soft and dry. Finally wewill smoke the skins, turning them golden brown and preserving them asbuckskin.
In this course you will:
Get a skinned deer hide and be guided through working it into a beautiful brain-tanned buckskin to take homeLearn fleshing, graining, and scraping techniques for working with a skinned hideCome to understand the braining, softening, and smoking processes for finishing a raw hideGain experience with each of the tools and steps involved with hide-workingLearn about the many survival uses of brain-tanned buckskin and other components of hide-working, include hide glues & rawhide
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Located in Snohomish County in the Seattle / Puget Sound Region of the Northwest
360-793-8709 · 18715 299th Ave SE, Monroe, WA 98272
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