Tanning Deer Skins with Oak Bark
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- Using the bark of an oak tree that fell down during a recent storm, leatherworker Katy Warriner guides us through the traditional process of tanning deer skins. It's a complex process with many different stages, but she explains how you can do it yourself in your own garden, creating leather that will last you a lifetime.
Thanks to Katy Warriner: www.warinnerleatherworks.co.uk
Film by Jemma Cholawo: www.jemmacholawo.com
Links:
→ Website: woodlands.co.uk
→ Instagram: / woodlands.c. .
→ Facebook: / woodlandscouk
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I love this, many thanks! I'm retired now but my trade in life was as a self employed hide tanner using traditional techniques. I still have my fleshing tools and Ulu blade. I've tanned many red deerhides, as I came to Ireland from my native Scottish Highlands. Gosh though, I still miss work...
Hi, just wondering where in ireland you are based? Thanks, Davy
Superb tanning video. Thanks. Yet another excellent video from you. Please keep them coming.
Excellent and very clever looks great. Thank you for showing your skills.
Excellent tutorial Katie. A skill that is well worth knowing and learning. I guess this procedure could be used for many animal skins~? Been a long-time subscriber. Greetings from Liverpool ✌️🐝
Absolutely loved this. Thank you, Katy! :)
Oh I really like this!! Very interesting and well explained. I had no idea that there were so many different processes involved and how long it took. Thanks
The vinegar will lower the ph, the lime solution was raising it.
Excellent presentation, I learned a lot from this.
Absolutely facinating, a true craft.
A succinct presentation! Thank you for this learning experience!
Can you make a video of Katie making gloves out of that deer skin??? Very very cool video :)
What a long time consuming process. Plus a lot of hard work.
do you know what other trees would be good for tanning? No oaks around Alaska. 😉
Alder, willow, poplar. and fresh spruce bark(not dried) should suffice. Can always to do some tests and try blending tree species.
I second Spruce. Look up Bole Tannery in Sweden.
In my experience, just about any tree bark will work. However, you may want to experiment with what you have available first, because while anything might tan leather, you may not be satisfied with the leather produced.
Great video! I am planning on bark tanning my first deer hide, and am wondering approximately how much oak bark is needed.
I know why people dehair the hides, but I always enjoy bark tanning hides with hair on. I just really enjoy the look.
Will it work without dehairing?
@@thewoodsgoatfarm8550 It absolutely will, but it requires a few different steps to make it work. It takes much longer, and in my experience you have to have a much stronger solution from start to finish to prevent the hair from slipping. If your solution is weak at any point, the hair will just start to slip.
So you start off with the weaker batch and gradually add the 2 others maybe a month apart for 3 months? How about layering in bark or do you just use the liquid?
can you write please the tanning recepi with the bark?
Hi! A question, when softening, do you "only" soften for 10 minutes, or from moist to completely dry as with buckskin?
What do you do with it at night when your in the middle of the first tanning process when you need to move it around every 30 mins?
Slacked lime? Or lye?
Rest of my life? Seems like fine leather, but I'm a working man honey.