You’ll receive detailed directions on how to get to the campus upon registration. ![]() This location has a lovely blend of cleared land and bountiful gardens, along with wild woodlands where many wild creatures make their home. It’s home to lead instructor Tyler Lavenburg and his family, along with a small collection of other friends. Shelterwood Cove is a lovely and welcoming homestead amidst forested mountains in the Reems Creek area of Weaverville, NC, about 25 minutes from Asheville. To learn more about brain tanning, including all the steps that are involved, check out or blog post about how to tan a hide, naturally.Ĭlass Location This class is held in Weaverville, at the Shelterwood Cove sister campus This resource will help enable to you to tan as many hides as you wish when you get home. Plus, when you leave we’ll send you off with a comprehensive, beautiful, and image-rich guide to hide tanning. We do our best to ensure that everyone finishes their hide over the course of the class. Walk away with a beautiful brain tanned buckskin, and the knowledge to make more of them. Fortunately, this often involves much merriment as we wait for our hides to smoke, feeding our coals frequently with “punky” wood. Smoking a hide preserves the super-soft character that the hides have taken on, gives them a lovely honey color, and prevents them from turning back into hard rawhide. Some folks will be finishing up with softening others will be sewing their hides into tubes and preparing them for the smoking process. Everyone will get a chance to try out various approaches to getting their hide nicely supple. We’ll show you several methods for softening your brain tanned buckskin, before smoking it. ![]() This day is all about softening your hide. Saturday – Softening your brain tanned buckskin Students will spend the day braining, wringing, braining, wringing… you may see a pattern here. Everyone will remove the hair, grain, and membrane on this day. Each student will be given their own hide, much of the rest of the day will be spent hands-on learning the art of removing not only hair, but also grain. We will start at 9:30 am with a discussion of deer skinning, a fleshing demonstration, discussion of hide preservation, and an overview of tanning techniques. What to Expect: Brain Tanning from Start to Finish Thursday – Overview of brain tanning skinning, fleshing, scraping – Trudie, Kid’s Program Coordinator, North Carolina By the end of the class, they had helped us all turn our hides into beautiful works of art and left us with the knowledge to continue on our own! Hide Tanning at Wild Abundance is an experience that anyone will enjoy and leave wholly enriched.” The instructors made it really easy to understand and were available for plenty of one-on-one help. There was plenty of time to get to know the group and share stories and laughter while working on our hides. It was enriching working with people of all different ages and skill levels. ![]() I came expecting just to learn new skills but I left with… a new passion and a new-found appreciation for hide tanning. It was a wonderful and unforgettable experience. It’s super soft and supple and very strong even when it gets wet it’s still strong and very comfortable for footwear and clothing as used by native American Indians.“Thank you so much for offering the Hide Tanning Class. Traditional native American moccasins are brain tanned to give them that ultra-soft feel and touch, normally these are left natural in colour, some of the moccasins are also coloured normally with bright colours.īrain Tanned leather that is not smoked and is usually lighter in colour like white. Hunters will only use selected animals that have enough oils and tannins in the brains for the tanning process, mainly cattle, deer, buffalo, raccoons and beavers. It’s mainly used by hunters to cure hides when a kill is made, they use selected animals as simpler process is required to achieve the desired tanning process. It’s a very labour-intensive process giving a result that’s very soft and extremely washable.īrain tanning is carried out today, mainly on a small scale compared to traditional chrome tanning processes. Brained tanned leather is a very indigenous American Indian tradition using emulsified oils often those of animal brains of buffalo, deer and cattle.
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