I don't know if anyone will be able to help me with this but don't ask don't get as we say in my family.
At the Midland Game Fair I bought two reindeer hides. I was given advice on how to waterproof the skin (I think it therefore was only oil tanned), and warned about how they shed. Having had a foot square of reindeer around for ages before (my fiance's) I know just how much they can shed. Now his piece of hide is carefully kept in a pile of hides used as backgrounds in photos. I would like to be able to take one of the reindeer hides with us when camping (we don't tend to camp far from the car because we spend most of our spring/summer/autumn camping at shows) but I'm wondering if anyone knows whether if I do my hide will just shed to bald patches?
Solving this problem would also mean that the other one might end up as a cape for winter. That is if I can convince our lurcher puppy that just because something is hairy or fluffy doesn't mean it needs to be pulled apart.
At the Midland Game Fair I bought two reindeer hides. I was given advice on how to waterproof the skin (I think it therefore was only oil tanned), and warned about how they shed. Having had a foot square of reindeer around for ages before (my fiance's) I know just how much they can shed. Now his piece of hide is carefully kept in a pile of hides used as backgrounds in photos. I would like to be able to take one of the reindeer hides with us when camping (we don't tend to camp far from the car because we spend most of our spring/summer/autumn camping at shows) but I'm wondering if anyone knows whether if I do my hide will just shed to bald patches?
Solving this problem would also mean that the other one might end up as a cape for winter. That is if I can convince our lurcher puppy that just because something is hairy or fluffy doesn't mean it needs to be pulled apart.