Introduces the tools, equipment, and techniques used in tanning hides and tells how to make useful objects out of leather.

A step-by-step guide to making vests, belts, and wallets by home tanning and hand-working furs and leathers. 138,000 copies in print.

An exceptionally thorough and readable do-it-yourself book on making animal skins into leather, tanning fur and leather and basic taxidermy.

First edition published under title, Deerskins into buckskins: how to tan with natural materials; a field guide for hunters and gatherers, c1997.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Text-book of Tanning" (A treatise on the conversion of skins into leather, both practical and theo