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 ...

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 ...

Beaver pelts helped drive the early North American economy, and on Thursday’s airing of Mountain Men, Morgan showed us how to tan a beaver hide. The two main things you will need for a tanning a ...

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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 ...