Brain Tanning Workshop - How to Make Buckskin (May 12-13)
Description:
Our Hide Tanning Workshop walks you through all the steps it takes to turn animal skins into usable leather for clothing, bags and footwear. You will learn both wet scrape and dry scrape methods of tanning. This is a 100% hands-on experience where you will tan a deer hide. In the end each participant will go home with a beautiful, all natural, and soft piece of buckskin.
Topics that will be covered include: skinning, fleshing, dehairing, softening and smoking of the hides.
When: Friday 2-5pm Sat & Sun 9am-5pm
Registration Fee: $175.00
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Matt Weahterholtz - Guest Instructor
Matt Weatherholtz was born in and raised in the Shenandoah Valley, beginning his passion for primitive skills while in his youth. Informally educated by a handful of mentors, he began his journey learning how to make bows in his pre-teens. He was tanning hides before he graduated high school, and building Living History exhibits in his twenties.
Matt's handcrafted work can been viewed at Frontier Culture Museum, Henricus Historical Park, Natural Bridge of Virginia's Powhatan Village, Colonial Williamsburg and even Living History Museums in Germany. He is well versed in all that is primitive; woodwork, flint knapping, peck and ground stone tools, hide tanning, domicile construction, fibers, friction fire, and mat making. Practicing these skills daily, students learn from Matt that a sturdy foundation is important as all these skills overlap and compliment one another. His passion for education comes from a desire for people to be more sustainable and knowledgeable in utilizing their local resources respectfully.
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