Hide tanning

Turn a deer hide into soft, supple buckskin with your own two hands. We walk you through the brain tanning method of how to tan a hide.

Taking on the Task of Tanning a Hide:: Our resident DIYer took on the monumental task of tanning a hide on her own! Check out this time-intensive project!

Whether you’re making buckskin or a deer hide blanket, this method is the fastest and easiest way to tan a deer hide.

Tanning hides is something that I have always wanted to master. Tanning is an art. In the past I have tanned a few rabbit hides and many ground squirrel hides but never something so large as a cow hide. … Continued

In this article, I share with you 10+ hide tanning books, courses and free resources to help you start tanning your own hides naturally.

Everything you need to know to make leather at homeLeather is a material made from the skin of an animal using tanning or other similar processes. Leather is not susceptible to bacteria and decay because of the altering of the protein...

The tanning process is incredibly simple. With just a little ingenuity and elbow grease, almost anyone can tan their own deer hide.

Harmony Cronin calls her vagabond beginnings on the fringe of Yellowstone National Park “trucksteading.” Raised by a non-hunting family in Denver, Cronin spent her early 20s bouncing around the West, sleeping in the beds of friends’ pickup trucks and seeking the sorts of people and knowledge that she wasn’t exposed to earlier in her life. Like early homesteaders in the area, she found she could make a living from the land—or, in her case, from the wild animals that occupy the land north of…

Join me for a step by step picture tutorial on how to tan a deer hide. We will learn the process of brain tanning hides into workable buckskin.

Learn to naturally tan a deer hide with step-by-step video instruction.