Deerskins into Buckskins by Matt Richards

Deerskins into Buckskins by Matt Richards

America's Best Selling Tanning Guide. Over 165 photographs and illustrations bring you step-by-step from raw skin to velvety soft buckskin and then show you how to create beautiful garments and useful goods. You will also learn how to make rawhide and hide glue, tan in a wilderness setting and the best way to skin. History, humour and science make this book not only practical, but fun Designed to be easily understood by the beginner yet rich with details for the experienced, this book teaches tanning as a natural process. No chemicals are needed All the tools and materials are waiting around your home and land. While the tools are simple, having a great method is the key. This book has that method (see the following reviews). Buckskin is durable, soft, washable and warm. A hand-made garment for people all over the world for millennia, it breathes and stretches with your body, cuts the wind and won't tear on briars. It is excellent to wear hiking, hunting or around the house. Plus you don't need to hunt.

Matt Richards is a multi-award-winning film director, television producer, and screenwriter who has written and directed a number of documentaries and television shows in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2012, he received the Spirit of Tiger Award for Best WWII Documentary Coverage. To Say Goodbye, a feature film he directed and co-wrote, premiered in competition at the 2012 San Sebastian International Film Festival.