Avoid putting holes in a hide by tanning hides with salt, and learn how to tan a hide naturally for valuable leather goods to use around the homestead. Every rural carnivore knows that home-raised ...

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 ...

It’s gun deer hunting season in Wisconsin. Some hunters are not only thinking harvesting the meat, but the hides too. Tanning is top of mind, all the time, for a women-owned business in rural ...

Wesley Dick can skin a deer in seven minutes. He makes three cuts with a buck knife, in a T-shape across the belly and uses his hands to scrape out the innards. Dick, whose Paiute name Kwassuba-tue ...

From a homesteader who raises rabbits for both meat and leather, here are the basics of how to tan a rabbit hide. You probably know that tanning (which is also called tawing or pickling) is the ...

THE PLAINS –– At the end of the cul-de-sac sits Talcon Quinn's canary yellow ranch, a home that her grandparents built decades ago. It's quiet and unassuming, and thankfully she has known the ...

Somewhere in Minnesota, there’s warehouse with thousands of deer, elk and moose hides in various states of processing and preservation. And throughout the country, there are hundreds, perhaps more ...

Following is a transcription of the video. Narrator: This is said to be the world's oldest leather-making tradition. It's called vegetable tanning, and it's a process that has been perfected over ...