You’re not a fur trader, so many of the terms—hide, skin, fur, pelt, and buckskin—used to describe the outer coat of wild game animals may seem interchangeable. (And frankly, a lot of them are.) But ...

Rabbit pelts are in their prime in the cold winter months. Beka Garris During the cold winter months, rabbit hunting is one of my favorite things to do. Especially right after a fresh snow—there’s ...

Avoid putting holes in a hide by tanning hides with salt, and learn how to tan a hide naturally for valuable leather goods to use around the homestead. Every rural carnivore knows that home-raised ...

I’ve brain-tanned my fair share of deer, squirrels, groundhogs, foxes and sundry other creatures unfortunate enough to cross Route 9 near our farm and school in West Virginia; but the farmers market ...

It’s gun deer hunting season in Wisconsin. Some hunters are not only thinking harvesting the meat, but the hides too. Tanning is top of mind, all the time, for a women-owned business in rural ...

Tanning animal hide makes a leather that is more durable and less susceptible from decomposition. It can be a malodorous process, because of all the animal remains and because the skins are sometimes ...

Michelle Steevens displays a cow skull and goat hide on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021, at Catherine Creek Hides, her new business in Union. UNION — Few tasks give Michelle Steevens of Union a greater ...

Somewhere in Minnesota, there’s warehouse with thousands of deer, elk and moose hides in various states of processing and preservation. And throughout the country, there are hundreds, perhaps more ...

"I didn't know it, but I absolutely love tanning, love it to death," said Erickson, owner of The Tannery, a hair-on-hide tanning company in the Bitterroot Valley. Now, he processes animal hides for ...