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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. $15.00
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Scrape Brain Tanned Buckskin
by Steve Edholm and Tamara Wilder
A practical Guide to Home Tanning and Use
Ever though about making your own leather?
Used for thousands of years by American Natives, and later by American
colonists, buckskin has long served the vital needs of people, in
clothing and other useful items. It is velvety soft, supple, durable,
washable, beautiful, and is made without the use of dangerous or
polluting chemicals.
This book is a detailed step-by-step guide to tanning: from locating
hides to skinning to using the finished product.
Additional chapters cover:
- the structure of skin
- the orgins and history of buckskin
- comparison of wet and dry-scrape processes
- tool shapening skills
- care and storage of skins prior to tanning
- making buckskin clothing
- care of buckskin
- making buckskin with stone and bone tools
- dyeing buckskin
- tanning deer skins with the hair on
- making hide glue
- using sinew
- and more
This first full length book on the wet-scrape process, it is written
both as an easy to use practical guide for the beginning home tanner
and as a long term reference. Each step is covered in its own chapter
by a total of 148 photos and illustrations. Chapter summeries, trouble
shooting sections, index, and glossary are also included.
Braintanning is a very rewarding undertaking, in terms of both the
finished product and the feeling of self reliance and accomplishment
that come with covering a skin into the infinitely useful and beautiful
material - buckskin. This book is a practical guide to this ancient and
intriguing art.
Counterpart to the above book, this is the most thorough coverage of
wet-scrape method.
Temporarily Unavailable
336 pages, 148 photos and illustrations. $18.00
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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
Paperback, 160 pages. $20.00
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