Before and after. From rough, stiff, crunchy-cardboard hide I'd long thought unsalvageable, to a suede finer than paper and as soft as mycelium. This batch of alum- and bark-tanned rabbit hides sat barely-broken in the bottom of a moving box for five years, and now they're so soft and smooth, you'd never know it. Thanks to @kyfurneaux for giving me a little inspiration-push to get back on the horse, as it were. Let's see what these skins become next. . . . . . . . . . . . . posted on Instagram - http://bit.ly/2JV6Q9q

Jesse and Peregrine do the #twist! Demoing two person #animalhide wringing at our #freeskillsseries on #hidetanning. #rewild #rewilding #barktan #braintan #tanning #hide #buckskin #tannedleather (at Whitaker Ponds Natural Area)