Progress Hide Club: FOUNDATIONS 2025 Complete & Continue Next Lesson Learn More Zoom + Schedule Details 3 Lessons Zoom Call Info Session Schedule Video outline of our season Getting Ready for Hide Club 5 Lessons Video: Hide tanning primer Recommended Tools Materials to Gather Ingredients to Gather Unboxing the Materials Kit Equipment building 3 Lessons New Video: Building a 2x2 frame New Video: Building a (wet-)scraping beam Instructions: Equipment-making primer (with cut lists!) Introductions 1 Lesson Recording Week 1: Introductions to the cohort + mineral tanning; February 6 Mineral-tanned Rabbitskin Leather 7 Lessons Intro to Mineral-tanning Steps in Tanning Rabbit Skins Recording Week 2: Alum-tawing rabbit skins; February 13 Preparing for Week 3: Finalizing rabbitskin leathers Stitching Hides (scroll for instructions) Recording Week 3: Finalizing rabbitskin leather Extra Video: rehydrating rabbitskin leather to get softer Bark-tanned Sheepskin Rug 15 Lessons All about Tannins How to Scrape Bark (scroll below video for more details) How to Wash a Sheep Skin Preparing for Week 3: Prepping sheep skin for bark-tanning Recording Week 3: Intro to Bark-tanning How to Acidify a Hide Recording Week 3, Sat: Bark-liquoring Video: Bark-liquoring Day 1 Team Extracts Team Bark Pieces Bark-liquoring Schedule Bark-liquoring Tips Recording Week 4: Scudding New Video: Rinsing wool of tannins (a quick rinse on the leather is good too) Finalizing Sheepskin Leather Smoke-tanned Buckskin 15 Lessons Intro to Smoke-tanning Steps in Smoke-tanning Buckskin Preparing for Week 4: Bucking Video: How to Buck a Hide (Scroll for written Instructions) Recording Week 5: Wet-scraping: graining and membraning Recording Week 5, Pt 3: Membraning De-Bucking (Neutralizing) Making a Fat Emulsion Wringing-Fat-Liquoring-Wringing (full video coming soon) Framing (disclaimer: mic is a bit fuzzy) Opening up after Framing Dry-scraping New Video: More dry-scraping New Video: De-framing hides Preparing for Week 6, Session 8 Guest Speakers 2 Lessons Hunter Casganette Beze Gray Hide Club: FOUNDATIONS 2025 Complete & Continue Next Lesson Learn More Bark-tanned Sheepskin Rug Bark-liquoring Schedule
