Making Fabric

Thank you Jon for teaching me how to make buckskin, how to skin moose and deer, and how to butcher. I am so fortunate to have learned from a person as knowledgeable, skilled, and respectful as you. Thank you.

In exchange for the knowledge and experiences Jon's gifted me with, I have offered, and worked, with many people on the hides I've processed. and Soon I will have a lovely hoodie as testament to my work! (picture to come mid January)

Scott scraping the flesh side of the hide before soaking in Alkali (wood ash)

Hair side of a Deer Skin post soak

'Graining' - removing the hair and grain
leaving the skin layer, which becomes
the supple buckskin

Laura and Kashmir (or is that Apollo?)

One of five hides that's been softened
and is awaiting the smoke ...

The Smoke!