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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eighth-grade teacher Kris Schreiner demonstrates removing membrane and fat from an elk hide as part of the tanning and curing process in his class at Kalispell Middle School on Nov. 20. (Casey Kreider ...

We started raising meat rabbits on our small acre homestead, and wanted to honor the animals that feed us by using as much of the rabbit as possible. The innards are buried, and turned to compost. 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 ...

Long before factories manufactured denim for blue jeans, clothes were made from animal hides treated with emulsified oils and wood smoke. Animal brains were a popular source for the emulsified oils, ...

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 ...

Kelly Gordon and Elder Larry Mistaken Chief have been leading hide tanning workshops together for the last five years, with ...

A buffalo hide is stretched out on a square wooden frame under a tent near the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum in Ottawa, as volunteers work diligently with scrapers and buckets to prepare it for ...