Courses, Classes and Consultation

Using your own hands and  learning the skills  to transform a freshly skinned hide into soft smoked buckskin leather is a rewarding experience that forms a relationship between you and the animal, the past and the present, and extends and honours the animal's life into the future. The art of natural hide tanning creates a unique and rare leather that retains the original integrity and strength of the living animal. 

At Manitoba Buckskin, we have hosted many groups of interested people who tour the shop and learn about what we do. We have taught and trained delegations who have learned the skills and processes of natural hide tanning to take back to their own communities and programs. Individuals with their own hides have come to the shop and receive hands on training, tanning their own hide start to finish. Many other organizations and institutions have invited us to demonstrate, display, and discuss the natural methods of buckskin tanning and drum making. 

If you want to make use of the hides you have, want to learn an ancient, functional and practical art, or would value the insight and skill required to create handmade natural leather or rawhide yourself, I can arrange instruction to suit your individual or group needs, at my location or yours. I can provide hides and tools for hands-on, complete start to finish tanning workshops spread out over a number of days, weekend crash courses with partially prepared hides, afternoon demonstrations, or information presentations. I am very open and willing to accommodate your requests and proposals, please feel free to contact me for costs and details.

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