Brain-Tanned Sheep Hide Workshop
June 5th – 7th
Shauna Mikomi will be coming to Perryvale in the spring to teach a hide tanning workshop. There are 9 spots available for this class, and some are spoken for. If you are keen to join, please register soon!
The workshop will be 3 days long (Fri, Sat, Sun) and $350 dollars. You will walk away with a ton of knowledge and your very own sheep hide rug. It’s hard to describe the connection that comes from tanning your own hide..
Shauna and Kaliegh met in Golden, BC, where they lived together with Shauna’s good friend Sarah and her sweet dog Lo. The babe cave was a house full of sheep hides, buffalo rugs, hand-made brooms, baskets, foraged food, deep chats and warm laughter.
Shauna frequently teaches hide-tanning workshops all over BC and the USA. She is also a registered massage therapist. You can take a peek at her business SKINS here:
https://www.instagram.com/shauna.mikomi/?hl=en
We are so excited that Shauna said yes to joining us out on the land next June, bringing her knowledge of hide-tanning and her beautiful spirit to our little community.
Here is a little bit more from Shauna:
“I’m Shauna, a little about myself; I tanned my first deer hide in 2014 using a smoke tan method. After this I attended a wilderness survival school. This school was focused around making everything we would need to go out on a 30 days outdoor adventure in the mountains with no modern technology, for clothes we tanned hides and made clothes, my sleeping bag was a buffalo hide, we made pottery to cook on the fire and we harvested and preserved wild food of which we ate for the month.
I’m drawn to natural hide tanning and avoiding synthetic/chemical products. I love saving these hides from being tossed out, giving them new life, it feels truly sustainable to me.
Hide tanning has brought me a lot of personal insight and created a beautiful aesthetic in my life.
There are a few different methods of hide tanning; brain tanning/smoke tanning, bark tanning and alum thawing. We will be doing a method called brain-tanning. The sheep hides we will be working with come from Cold Lake, Alberta and are collected from small flocks from the previous fall. They have been preserved with salt over the winter in Edmonton.”
Accommodation:
BYOTent/sleeping pad/sleeping bag (Let us know if you need something!)
Our home can be used for cooking and chilling but we will also have an outdoor kitchen/camp set up
Outdoor Composting Toilet
Details:
Collaborative meals
$350 total – $103 non-refundable deposit and cash preferred upon the starting of class
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