Welcome to Hide Tanning Storylines!
As part of joining Hide Tanning Storylines, I am gifting you the resources originally from Hide Club, which is Fern + Roe's annual online hide tanning season. These PDFs are step-by-step guides on how to tan hides in each method, on any animal hide.
If you're a total beginner, some of the jargon terms and recipes inside may not click yet. These resources are not the "backstory." They are the logistics. They are meant to be perused and checked up on as you would a dictionary, as you grow your hide tanning vocabulary.
To view the resource library, click the Google Drive link below. This will notify me of a "share request" and you'll be granted access within 48 hours. Please make sure the email address you use is the same one you signed up for Hide Tanning Storylines with, and kindly do not share these PDFs outside our training.
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In our second week Live Call, we talked about harvesting the brain from an animal skull for smoke/brain-tanning. Brain is imo by far the preferred emulsified fat to use for tanning. Its magic ingredient is the enzyme lecithin, which is also found in egg yolks to a much lesser degree. If you don't have access to brain, I recommend buying non-GMO sunflower lecithin and add a tablespoon of it to 2 cups hot water the day before you want to tan. Add 1/4cup of any fat/oil to that and use in lieu of brain.
Click the link below for a silent video walk-through on harvesting brain. The piece that is removed from the skull here is called the skullcap.