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 ...

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Tanning animal hide makes a leather that is more durable and less susceptible from decomposition. It can be a malodorous process, because of all the animal remains and because the skins are sometimes ...

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 ...

When Donnie Bumgarner kills an elk or deer, he doesn’t want anything, even something 90 percent of hunters throw in the trash, to go to waste. Hunters call it “harvesting,” not killing, for reasons ...

One Holstein cowhide provides enough leather for roughly 100 baseballs, and sporting goods company Rawlings produces more than 2 million balls for Major League Baseball every year. That’s a lot of ...

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Fritz Seidel is well aware his company operates within one of Milwaukee's old line industries − which largely began disappearing around 30 years ago. But Seidel Tanning Corp. isn't just a survivor.

OWATONNA, Minn.—The caller at the other end of Jared Rinerson’s phone line was a hunter in Montana. He had four elk hides. And he wanted to turn them into a jacket and maybe some handmade gloves.

In the town of Cotacachi, Ecuador, which bustles with more than 50 leather artisans and shops, one family still holds on to a centuries-old tanning recipe. A strong smell of salt, leather and wet fur ...