Hide tanning frame

Using a frame, and lacing the hide into the frame to soften it is easier on back and body, resulting in softer, thinner, and larger hides. Softening the hide takes stretching and constant flexing as the hide dries.

Ho-Chunk woman tanning a buckskin. Typical dwellings (ciiporokes) are in the background.

I am asked a lot about what tanning materials people should use in their part of the world. Well, be careful what you ask for he he. Here is a very large amount of information to address fill that gap. I had already typed up a partial list for a vegetable tanning book project that I have done som

Many expensive desks have leather inlays that bring sophistication and elegance to the desk. The inlays can be on the top, sides or work surface of the desk. Older desks may have cracked or damaged leather inlays that need replacement.

The Yankee work ethic is alive and well on the Hewitt homestead.

Diy fleshing beam from old bench frame, half rounded2x6 and old shelf for the bottom

parchment, on display in the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum.

A description of how to make parchment and vellum as it was produced in the middle ages.