TAN YOUR OWN SHEEPSKIN
Learn to tan the natural, ancient way. Using tree barks and natural oils, tan a sheepskin. We will go through the whole process from raw sheepskin to soft tanned rug.
The course will take you through scraping and preparing the skin then making and applying a bark solution to tan the skin, and finally softening with oil.
The process requires a certain degree of fitness, but mostly what you need is to be willing to get stuck in.
Course Leader - Jessie Watson Brown
Jessie is on a path of rewilding, reconnecting, reskilling and remembering. Weaving together a deep reskilling through making and crafting using natural materials, with immersing herself in the natural world and learning the ways of our ancestors.
Jessie lives simply on a Dartmoor farm and works as a hide tanner and wilderness skills instructor.