Braintanned leather scraps

Brain tanned leather hide scraps
Traditionally tanned white tail leather.

Total square feet measures 3.7  square feet

8 pieces total. Measurement total doesn’t include thin parts in calculation of square footage.

Cut from a thicker hide, so harder for beading but better for other projects.

Please let us know what type of project you will be working on so we can help you pick the ideal hide! If you’re looking for material for a vest, shirt, coat, pants, moccasins, bag or more, we’d sure like to help!

Leather finishing:
With traditional brain tanning, the leather is not thinned to an even thickness, so they retain their natural density (each hide has varying degrees of thickness throughout). I lace the hides onto a wooden frame, to stretch and work them dry, making them lay fairly flat for cutting patterns. Smoking the leather is the final step, (if you would like a hide left in the white, let us know!), and I mainly use Quaking Aspen for this.

Natural Variations:
The perfect hide is hard to come by, because of naturally occurring scars from deer fighting, going under barbed wire fences, and holes left from hunter’s bullets. I tend to fix most of the holes, which I sew shut with artificial sinew (waxed linen thread). Colors aren’t completely even, as shown in pictures.
Buckskin pants and knife case I made myself with some of the first leather I ever tanned.

Our leather is great for:

• Native American dancers
• historical re-enactors
• mountain men
• bushcrafters
• longhunters
• Vikings
• leathercrafters
• costume designers
• primitive wilderness crafts
• quill workers
• bead workers
• and anyone who loves beautiful, unique, and soft leather!

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