Braintanned Leather Scrap 16″

Brain tanned leather.

The circle is 16″ diameter

Made from white tail deer skin. Thickness is medium.

Drum head has a surface scar in the center (it’s doesn’t go all the way through). Grade B leather since it’s not as cosmetically smooth looking or colored as grade A. Could also be used for another project.

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 hide onto a wooden frame, to stretch and work it dry, making it 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:

Some, but not all, hides have scars on them from the deer fighting or going under barbed wire fences. Colors aren’t completely even, as shown in pictures.

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