#Tanning hides with eggs skin
At some point in ancient history, folks learned to turn animal skin into clothing. Tanning is a very interesting process and is what I would call a foundational skill, or a basic skill of mankind. It looked like I would have to do something similar in 2016. The previous summer I had made beaver fur mittens for the whole family with my trapped beaver, and they had turned out nicely. In the past I’ve done a small bit of tanning and had some good results. If I were to get any sort of payback from my winter’s trapline, I’d have to get creative and take a more non-traditional route.
What I didn’t want to do was have my hard-won furs turn into only a few dollars. I don’t hold it against the buyer, it is just business. I knew how our meeting would end me with no fur left and not much check to show for it. The fur buyer would be coming to town soon and I started debating whether or not to pay him a visit. I’d been keeping tabs on the market and everything played out as predicted. By the end of the year I’d managed to lay up a bit of fur, but not enough to brag about. I don’t catch a lot of animals annually, so I try and catch them at their best. Once again, I would be hard pressed to make that happen.Īs the season opened up I waited to set my traps until animals started priming up. That being said I find it a challenge to try and make my trapping efforts pay for themselves. Luckily, I wasn’t really banking on a trapping check to pay the bills, just more or less to try and pay the trapping bills. Last year had been sluggish at best, and 2016 surely looked like it would be another rough year. Everything pointed in one direction: south. Prior to the opening of the trapping season I browsed reports from multiple sources giving their best predictions on the upcoming market. The fur forecast for the winter of 2016 wasn’t looking good. * repeat process: Dip, ring, work it back and forth over rope, work hide till it is completely dry.With some egg yolk and a smoky fire, you can tan your fur the old fashioned way Lay old rotten Oak on coals, and let it smoke until hide is the color you want.] (You want to cold smoke the hide, not burn hide.) Lay small pile of hot coals in center of T-pea or pipe smoke in. [smoking: make a small T-pea with 4 long pols and whatever you have to wrap around pols. * repeat process, but this time work hide till it is completely dry. Dip, ring, work it back and forth over rope. * Lay hide over rope, and work it back and forth over rope. catching as much of the liquid that drips from hide as you can. Cut hide off frame and dip in mixture and ring as much of the liquid from the hide as you can. *Start rubbing mixture on dry hide, Hide will become pliable. *Mix: egg yoke, neat's-foot oil, plain dish soap, in 1 gallon of warm water, and mix good. *Stretch hide on frame and scrap meat & membrane off hide. *Remove hair from hide, unless your keeping hair on. tie the other end of rope to a strong branch about head high. *tie one end of a good strong rope to the base of a tree. *1 gallon of warm water [not to hot you don't want to cook the egg yoke *1 table spoon Neat's-foot oil, or, Canola oil These have no Heels, and are made as fit for the Feet, as a Glove is for the Hand, and are very easie to travel in, when one is a little us'd to them." "They wear Shooes, of Bucks, and sometimes Bears Skin, which they tan in an Hour or two with the Bark of Trees boil'd, wherein they put the Leather whilst hot, and let it remain a little while, whereby it becomes so qualify'd, as to endure Water and Dirt, without growing hard. That "tan them with Bark, as before observ'd" he mentioned was also a quite different way: Yet these so dress'd will not endure wet, but become hard thereby which to prevent, they either cure them in the Smoke, or tan them with Bark, as before observ'd not but that young Indian Corn, beaten to a Pulp, will effect the same as the Brains." "Their Way of dressing their Skins is by soaking them in Water, so they get the Hair off, with an Instrument made of the Bone of a Deer's Foot yet some use a sort of Iron Drawing-Knife, which they purchase of the English, and after the Hair is off, they dissolve Deers Brains, (which beforehand are made in a Cake and baked in the Embers) in a Bowl of Water, so soak the Skins therein, till the Brains have suck'd up the Water then they dry it gently, and keep working it with an Oyster-Shell, or some such thing, to withal, till it is dry whereby it becomes soft and pliable. Click to expand.How about some baby corn?Ī New Voyage to Carolina, John Lawson, 1709, describing the ways of the Natives:
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