No garage? No problem. Tan your next deer hide for less than 30 bucks in your own bathroom. If I can do it inside a fifth-floor Manhattan matchbox apartment, it can be done anywhere. Gather a knife, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MARYSVILLE – You can get a nice golden-brown hide at Quil Ceda Tanning. Where: 3922 88th St. NE, Marysville What: Makes leather out of animal hides – primarily game like elk, deer and moose. It also ...

A group of students look on attentively as Tsuut'ina elder Larry Mistaken Chief cuts holes into the edges of a fresh deer hide. They're at One Spot Crossing near Bragg Creek, Alta., taking part in a ...

Gesig Isaac, who lives in Toronto and Listuguj in Eastern Quebec, wants to bring back traditional ways of making buckskin in her community. It hasn’t been easy, with tanners few and far between across ...

Two-spirit Indigenous youth gathered at a park near Barrie, Ont., last week to learn traditional hide tanning techniques. Niizh Manidook Hide Camp ran Aug. 7-15 and was hosted by Springwater ...