Hiya mate
Taken from another thread:
"It's possible to diy a deerskin relatively easily using the washing machine.
1) Scrape off the visceral tissues from the flesh side of the skin.
2) wash using biological washing liquid on cold in the washing machine.
3) Wash again, on cold, with no soap but a very healthy dose of fabric conditioner.
4) Pull out skin and stretch over a frame and put it somewhere cool but airy to begin drying......a cloudly breezy day is ideal.
5) As it dries begin to rub in masses of hand cream on the flesh side. The more you rub, and the more you rub in, the better the skin will be.
6) Ta ra, one diy modern equivalent of a braintanned skin
The first one I did like this, nearly ten years ago now, is still sound and has kept it's pelt.
copied from modern Inuit, whose people have to be among some of the most capable hunters mankind has ever produced.
it works on rabbit too"
This was taken from Toddy hopefully she wont mind me copying it!
Dave
I am yet to try this but hopefully its as easy as it sounds!!!!
