You'll find all sorts of tanning recipes, including tawing, smoking, curing with brains, and old-fashioned tanning with bark brine for many months (bark brine is used for making leather only). Learn how to tan your rabbit (and cow, sheep, deer, etc) pelts at home. Tips from the experts, or at least from others with lots of tanning experience, is invaluable to any homesteader or backyard rabbit breeder. In this fashion, animal skins have preserved human lives in northern climates for millennia. Yurts and teepees are also traditionally made of animal skins, though not from rabbit ones. The finished result is almost magical - a soft and supple, incredibly warm, material that can be sown into garments, hats, shoes, gloves, rugs, wall hangings, and bedspreads. Tanning requires up to several weeks of soaking in an alum or acid ‘brine,’ and then lots of elbow grease stretching and softening the pelt. We wish you could feel how dense and springy the fur is. The pictures on this page are all of rex pelts. Rex fur is short, plush and extremely dense. Rex Rabbits The pelts of any rabbit breed can be successfully tanned, however the rex rabbit is especially considered a ‘fur’ breed. By maximizing the resources that can be harvested and avoiding waste, you respect the animal and show good stewardship of God's creation. When an animal is culled, every bit should be utilized, including the fur. Tan them, sew them, and wear them! This aligns with the tradition of respecting nature by taking only what is needed. Many believe in thoughtfully honoring the lives of animals by only taking what is needed." ( National Museum of the American Indian, sponsored by the Smithsonian)ĭon’t discard your rabbit pelts. "The Native American, First Nation, Indigenous People of America strive to be respectful of their environments.
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