How to Tan with Natural Materials

by Matt Richards

Good step-by-step of wet-scrape braintanning using lime or lye from wood ashes. 

2 hours

DVD $25.00
(Plastic cover is shelf worn & plastic case has small crack in corner, but DVD has never been opened, sale price $18)

(Backcountry Books)

The Ancient Art of Braintanning

by Steven Edholm & Tamara WIlder

Buckskin: The Ancient Art of Braintanning has been out of print for the past several years due to technological difficulties with transitioning from the older form of printing “flats” to a digital format.

Hopefully the wait will be worth it and we really appreciate everyone’s patience and support.

Any orders placed here will be put on BACKORDER and will be shipped via USPS as soon as it is available.

Backorders will automatically include the digital version for FREE, which will be delivered via email as soon as it is available.

365 pages
9”x 6” x 1”

list price $19.95 (backorder price)
(price of new edition may change depending on cost of printing)

Double DVD

The Tanning Spirit
(Wetscrape Braintanning)
with Melvin Beattie
&
Ancient Art of Braintanning Buckskin
(Dryscrape Braintanning)
with Robert Earthworm

DVD compilation by HOPS Press of these two classic videos.

Tanning Spirit is a highly recommended instructional video on wet-scrape braintanning by one of our mentors. Especially good for visuals of processes, includes skinning & interesting tools and methods.

$20.00 (20% DISCOUNT from $25 list price)

Dry-Scrape Braintan

A Working Manual, 2nd Edition

by Jim Riggs

The classic text on dry-scrape braintanning.
Concise and witty.
Every braintanner should own this book. 

Jim dedicated his life to learning and teaching ancestral skills and inspired countless others to explore how to tan skins, flintknap stone tools, make arrows, twist fibers into string and rub sticks together to make friction fire. We initially learned how to tan from one of his students and a large number of our colleagues can also trace at least one of their lineages of knowledge back to this iconic man.

He was a good friend and mentor who also wrote the foreword to our book Buckskin: The Ancient Art of Braintanning.

133 pages
5.5” x 8” x .5”

list price $19.95

(Backcountry Publishing)

Braintanning Method

by Michael L. Rider

Short simple overview of the braintanning process by a renowned braintanner, known as Dirty Shirt who frequented black powder “rendezvous” events in the Western States of the US.

23 pages, folded & stapled handbook
5.5” x 8.5” x .125”

list price $7.95