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Community => Events => Topic started by: Jessie Natural Tanner on March 06, 2017, 11:00:14 am

Title: Natural Traditional Hide Tanning classes - Devon, May 2017
Post by: Jessie Natural Tanner on March 06, 2017, 11:00:14 am
Series of Hide tanning Classes - using natural, traditional materials...

4pm 19th – 4pm 21st May- Bark tanned rabbit furs and fish skins £140

4pm 21st – 4pm 25th May- Brain tanned deer skin – buckskin £300

26th May- Using every part of a deer £95

Or come for the whole week for £500 – saving £35

Set on a smallholding, in a bluebell wood on dartmoor, we will take you through every step of the process from raw skin to tanned finished piece for you to take home...

for more information see www.nettleseed.co.uk/courses (http://www.nettleseed.co.uk/courses)
Title: Re: Natural Traditional Hide Tanning classes - Devon, May 2017
Post by: landroverroy on March 06, 2017, 03:48:05 pm
 Sounds fascinating.
 But I'm sure I'm not the only one on here who keeps neither fish, rabbits nor deer, and am even less likely to have any use for the tanned skins of any of them.
 However - I do keep cattle and sheep, so could possibly be interested if you had any courses relating to these.