Finally achieved a feat I've been trying to undertake since 2023: workable, flexible chicken leather. This particular hide is somewhat damaged, but it's likely to be the first of several experiments with tanning color and finishing techniques.

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Finally achieved a feat I've been trying to undertake since 2023: workable, flexible chicken leather. This particular hide is somewhat damaged, but it's likely to be the first of several experiments with tanning color and finishing techniques.
Context: We have sheep. I have always been raised with sheep. We slaughter the sheep. We eat the sheep. I've always felt a bit weird about the fact that we give the skins to some guy instead of using them. So this time, I asked if I could keep one to try and tan it.
Outcome: I am not a squeamish person. Not in the least. But that smell is in fact not for me and neither is trying to remove the membrane from the skin layer in little bits for several hours because I do not have a threshing tool and I am not buying a threshing tool for one sheepskin. Unfortunately, Alum is also nonexistent in my country. The skins have gone sour and are now being disposed of.
Respect to people who do this as a hobby or for a living cause I did not make it a week.
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I've not seen anything from you for a few weeks. Hope you're OK, wherever you are.
I'm alive. I submitted my research paper, and then got really into sorting out my lamby skins*, ready for making slippers. I'm dropping a pair of skins off at the leatherworker's on Wednesday to be made into a bag and two pairs of slippers. I needed to comb all the tiny little sticky thorns out of the slipper-lamby's coat, which has been hours of work with a fine-toothed comb. I'll be back in circulation in a few days.
*I'm being self-sufficient for shoes, and recycling skins from my local lamb farmer, and giving the lambies a second life in a family. Sorry if that triggers vegans. I felt called to shaman for Allister's lambies.
hmmmmmn thinking about leather tanning,,,,,, ninjago,,,,, The Great Devourer,,,, hmmmmmmnmmmm capessss <3,,,,,, gigantic snake make many capes,,,, skinning it,,,, preparing the scales (? skin? hide? what English word-),,, maybe keeping it it's natural colour,,, maybe dyeing it,,,,, hmmmmmmnm cooking the scales,,,, make boxes,,,, much material to make things of,,,,, >:D 🐍🐍🐍 go brrrrrrrr
Working on some 'mundane' worldbuilding, which is my favourite kind honestly.
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With school starting up again, would anyone be interested in an encanto leather tanning HC list?
We learn mainly the Scandinavian (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland) ways of tanning but we've talked about Native American methods and I could pretty easily ask my teachers what they know about Colombia (or South America as a whole) / make my own research, which I honestly might just do anyway because leather tanning is really fascinating and interesting fhdhdh