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The Hide Out!
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The old Hide Out! is still available for research at http://www.braintan.com/archives . If you have unanswered, recent posts there, feel free to re-ask them inside. If there are some posts you provided there that you think folks will want to refer to, by all means, copy and paste them into the appropriate section of the new Hide Out!
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What is The Hide Out?
The Hide Out is a community devoted to helping you with traditional tanning methods, leather craft and related arts such as:
- Brain Tanning
- Bark Tanning
- Alum Tawing
- Rawhide
- Par-fleche
- Leather crafting
- Using the Whole Critter
- Dying Hides
You may enter as a guest (you can read but not post) or you may register and become a member with full access.
Registration is FREE, FAST, and allows you to use The Hide Out!'s many enhanced features. And no, we don't have any evil plans to sell your name or email address to anyone for any reason!Who is The Hide Out?
The Hide Out!'s regular participants include 'professional' tanners, crafts-people, researchers and regular folks from around the world, who share an interest in traditional tanning or leather craft. It is organized (using the term loosely) by Matt Richards. Some praise and most cussing can be directed at him. He is also the host of Braintan.com, the author of Deerskins into Buckskins, a brain tanner by trade and a frequent skinny dipper.
The Hide Out! has existed in several forms since January 1998. In that time, an incredible amount of high-quality information and some low quality jokes have been exchanged. We upgraded to the current software so that this knowledge can be better organized and easy to reference. Looking for the earlier version's archives?
Copyright notice: No contents can be used for for-profit purposes without express permission of the authors