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Use Your Brains: Tan Your Hides

Nov 5th, 2012 | By
Use Your Brains: Tan Your Hides

A lot of preppers are into supplementing their food supply through hunting and trapping. Along with meat, each animal you take also provides you with a pelt if you wish to take advantage of it. Brain tanning relies on the fact that every animal has enough brains to tan their own hide. The brain coats the fibers of the hide and prevents deterioration, leaving nice usable fur (with hair left on) or leather (with hair removed). If you ask ten people who brain tan how they do things, you will probably end up with at
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Tanning Hides at Home

Sep 3rd, 2012 | By
Tanning Hides at Home

You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars for high-priced material made from animal pelts. You can tan hides at home and save money. If your family is going back to the basics, you don’t want to go to the store for sheepskin rugs or rabbit fur jackets. You can make these at home with
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Rabbits: Tanning Hides for Beautiful Furs

Jan 25th, 2011 | By
Rabbits: Tanning Hides for Beautiful Furs

The idea of wearing fur (or making anything with fur) has some negative connotations in modern society, but fur is a natural by-product of raising meat rabbits. Anyone interested in the back-to-basic lifestyle knows that it is important to make the best uses of all of your resources. You are going to slaughter the animal
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