Soft Tanning Domestic Rabbit Fur with Feral Forest
Channel: feral lion
Date: 2017-05-12

This is a compilation of brief videos showing a domestic rabbit hide going from scraped and dried - to soft tanned. I moisten the hide back up, scrape the membrane layer off the inside, use lard as a tanning agent, and hand soften the hide. Huge thanks to the folks at PaleoPlanet for the advice on wet scraping rather than dry scraping - it made all the difference!

Domestic rabbit hides are generally tougher than wild rabbits, and are a bit easier to tan. Many people don't bother, as they are still overall a thin hide, but since we kept rabbits for meat back in Michigan I couldn't let the lovely furs go to waste. Later on I'll turn these furs into a hooded mantle for use during the Alaskan winter. Enjoy!

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