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Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
Hello.
Looking forward to meeting you all. I'm a wife, mom, backyard tanner and wool spinner. Passionately into working hand created textiles into something useful and lasting.
Been an animal lover from the get go, so we have a small farm on the premises. Several horses, pot belly pig, chickens, rabbits. Inside a labrador retriever, two tabby house cats, and parakeets. '
Husband and I have a good size family and live in a Christian home. I do believe we strive here to live simply and our world is extremely hectic!
Pleasure to meet likewise folk!
msbraintan
Looking forward to meeting you all. I'm a wife, mom, backyard tanner and wool spinner. Passionately into working hand created textiles into something useful and lasting.
Been an animal lover from the get go, so we have a small farm on the premises. Several horses, pot belly pig, chickens, rabbits. Inside a labrador retriever, two tabby house cats, and parakeets. '
Husband and I have a good size family and live in a Christian home. I do believe we strive here to live simply and our world is extremely hectic!
Pleasure to meet likewise folk!
msbraintan
msbraintan- Posts : 11
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Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
Hello msbraintan
Lovely to meet you, wow you have a busy household! Can't wait to hear more about it
Lovely to meet you, wow you have a busy household! Can't wait to hear more about it
Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
Thanks for the warm hearty welcome!
I will try my best not to gross you all out! It is difficult to get much done with so many underfoot!
We've been working on a basement remodel recently. I've recently used some sheep shears to help store deer skins collected from local hunters. To tan later, when the weather is a bit more agreeable. I think we are very into DIY around here! Something extremely satisfying about that!
I will try my best not to gross you all out! It is difficult to get much done with so many underfoot!
We've been working on a basement remodel recently. I've recently used some sheep shears to help store deer skins collected from local hunters. To tan later, when the weather is a bit more agreeable. I think we are very into DIY around here! Something extremely satisfying about that!
msbraintan- Posts : 11
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Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
I think that you have to work very hard to gross us lot out - feel free to post up photos and create threads about your tanning.
Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
Very keen to hear more about your tanning activities - I am a keen tanner of deer, sheep, rabbit etc skins but have only been doing it in any serious way for a year or so, so still have a lot to learn. Have a pile of deerskins and a couple of sheep fleeces salted dwon in the shed waiting for drier weather.
Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
Funny avatar Wilhelm!
Not sure about your weather but ours is also quite damp wet humid.. all of the above. It is definitely not a good tipi climate.. don't ask me how I know this!
In time you may also wish to modify the salt storage method. In our climates, I just don't think that this 'way' is the best. Taken me MANY MANY years to figure this out, too! Freezing isn't ideal at all for sheep skins, nor deerskins if they're not shorn! Too many insulative properties to both! I bet eventually you will find bark or vegetable tanning on the sheepskins to be ideal. I also think that only certain deerskins are best for hair on. I get some deerskins here in the fall.. (like the first ones) that are VERY short and really they are lovely.. they're more like a fur than what they soon become! The deer hair is hollow and will soon become increasingly porous and then breakage and you end up with a mess hair on.. I do like all the many leathers one can make with deerskins! So many ways you can tan them to achieve different results.. even the rawhides are just neat! It's held my fascination for many years now. I've met so many interesting people on this path. Look forward to chatting with you.
Not sure about your weather but ours is also quite damp wet humid.. all of the above. It is definitely not a good tipi climate.. don't ask me how I know this!
In time you may also wish to modify the salt storage method. In our climates, I just don't think that this 'way' is the best. Taken me MANY MANY years to figure this out, too! Freezing isn't ideal at all for sheep skins, nor deerskins if they're not shorn! Too many insulative properties to both! I bet eventually you will find bark or vegetable tanning on the sheepskins to be ideal. I also think that only certain deerskins are best for hair on. I get some deerskins here in the fall.. (like the first ones) that are VERY short and really they are lovely.. they're more like a fur than what they soon become! The deer hair is hollow and will soon become increasingly porous and then breakage and you end up with a mess hair on.. I do like all the many leathers one can make with deerskins! So many ways you can tan them to achieve different results.. even the rawhides are just neat! It's held my fascination for many years now. I've met so many interesting people on this path. Look forward to chatting with you.
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Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
Welcome, look forward to some interesting chats.
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Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
Hello and welcome
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Looking forward to getting to know you more!
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Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
Interesting, MsB.
I haven't tried bark tanning yet. i have done sulphuric acid, diesel and bicarb, brain and am now using an alum method. All my deer are roe and have kept their hair pretty well so far. Rabbits tend to get a bit patchier but I have lots of problems with their thin skins.
I haven't tried bark tanning yet. i have done sulphuric acid, diesel and bicarb, brain and am now using an alum method. All my deer are roe and have kept their hair pretty well so far. Rabbits tend to get a bit patchier but I have lots of problems with their thin skins.
Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
Hallo and welcome
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Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
I've done the sulfuric and the brain and the alum but have yet to use diesel and bicarb or bark! I do have some bark extract though and need to try this myself soon! The quebracho I have makes the skins a very dark red if left long enough or strong enough solution perhaps.
Thanks for all the Hallo's!
Thanks for all the Hallo's!
msbraintan- Posts : 11
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Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
Diesel and bicarb is very effective, and I am assured that sometime in the next ten years or so the hides will stop smelling of diesel.
Re: Hello from Northern Lower Michigan
Hi! I know I'm a latecomer, but it's nice to meet you! I hope to see you around.
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