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Blue Mountain Buckskin
by Jim Riggs
Jim Riggs was one of a small handful of people practicing primitive
skills in this country twenty-five years ago. Jim learned the art of
braintanning from old-timers Slim Schaefer and Sonny Sherman, and went
on to produce Blue Mountain Buckskin
as the classic book on dry-scrape tanning. First printed in 1979, Blue
Mountain Buckskin remains the most comprehensive text available today
on dry-scrape braintan. Jim's book includes an in-depth section on
manufacturing buckskin clothing, plus good braintan humor and fun
illustrations.
Second Edition, Paperback, 137 pages.
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Buckskin - The Ancient Art of Braintanning
by Steve Edholm and Tamara Wilder
Buckskin: The Ancient Art of Braintanning (originally titled Wet-Scrape Braintanned Buckskin)
is a veritable encyclopedia of the braintanning process. Steven and
Tamara first learned the art of tanning from Jim Riggs and Melvin
Beattie. They added their own innovations to the process and compiled
the most definitive work available on brain-tanning today, with lots of
tips for trouble-shooting problem hides. Buckskin: The Ancient Art of Braintanning
also includes comprehensive sections on making and using buckskin
clothes, dyeing buckskin, tanning deer hides with the hair on, and many
other uses of the deer. Steven and Tamara have a casual, fun-to-read
writing style.
Counterpart to the above book, this is the most thorough coverage of
wet-scrape method.
1997. 2001. 300 pages.
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Deerskins into Buckskins: How to Tan with Natural Materials
by Matt Richards
A Field Guide for Hunters and Gatherers
All kinds of people enjoy making and wearing their own buckskin...and
so can you, with this easy to use guide.
Over 130 photos and illustrations bring you step by step from raw skin
to velvety soft buckskin and then show you how to create beautiful
garments and useful goods. Designed to be easily understood by the
beginner yet rich with details for the experienced, this book teaches
tanning as a natural process. No chemicals are needed! All the tools
and materials are waiting around your home and land. While the tools
are simple, having a great method is key. This book has the bethod.
Buckskin is durable, soft, washable and warm. A hand-made garment for
people all over the world for millennia, it breathes and stretches with
your body, cuts the wind and won't tear on briars. It is excellent to
wear hiking, hunting or around the house. Plus you don't need to hunt.
Deerskins that would otherwise go to waste are available every fall
from neighbors, locals and butcher shops.
"Get this book. You'll be amazed at the unexpected ease of the process
and more importantly, your results. Deerskins Into Buckskins
is excellently researched and presented in a clearly explained, step by
step process. What's more, should you desire, you can accomplish all
this using only bones, rocks and sticks. It might just change your
life." - Jim Riggs, author of Blue Mountain Buckskin
"I have sucessfully completed dozens of buckskins under the mentoring
of numerous experts. It is obvious that Matt has created a 'quantum
leap' in the art. His process dramatically reduces the time and work,
resulting in the nicest buckskin I have ever made. The revolution has
begun." - Jeff "Roadkill" Damm, engineer and backyard tanner
2nd Edition, revised and updated. 2004. Paperback, 239 pages.
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