If you tag a deer this fall, put its skin to good use. Here’s how to tan a hide or preserve it for professional tanning.

No garage? No problem. Tan your next deer hide for less than 30 bucks in your own bathroom. If I can do it inside a fifth-floor Manhattan matchbox apartment, it can be done anywhere. Gather a knife, a ...

THE PLAINS –– At the end of the cul-de-sac sits Talcon Quinn's canary yellow ranch, a home that her grandparents built decades ago. It's quiet and unassuming, and thankfully she has known the ...

Wesley Dick can skin a deer in seven minutes. He makes three cuts with a buck knife, in a T-shape across the belly and uses his hands to scrape out the innards. Dick, whose Paiute name Kwassuba-tue ...

The smartest way to produce unique and durable traditional leather products is to treat the hide with smoke and animal brains, a Winnipeg hide-tanning expert says. "We're basically tanning hides the ...

BILLINGS — Hunters shouldn't expect Dean Emmick to save their skin. "This is the kind of crap I get all the time," Emmick, 49, complained while pointing to a mule deer hide laid across the floor of ...

Gesig Isaac, who lives in Toronto and Listuguj in Eastern Quebec, wants to bring back traditional ways of making buckskin in her community. It hasn’t been easy, with tanners few and far between across ...