HIDE CLUB

ONLINE HIDE TANNING PROGRAM
February - March 2026

Hide Club is a comprehensive two-month online program.

Join our next season: February-March 2026.

We teach you how to tan hides right from your home, with a group of other tanners as excited to learn + do this craft as you are.

Meet with us over Zoom and in our online resource space. You get guidance on every step of the tanning process - in real time + through recordings (live attendance is not required).

We give you access to extra videos, written notes, a group chat on WhatsApp to make sure you have the support you need to make high quality self-tanned hides.

GET YOUR SPOT

(1) Sign up here

(2) Choose to purchase the Hide Club Welcome Kit or BYO hides + stuff

(3) Make sure you have the tools

(4) Mark your calendar for Hide Time: Feb 6th to March 26th, 2025

HOW HIDE CLUB WORKS

Join the live Zoom calls on Tuesdays + Thursdays

And/or catch the recordings - live attendance not required

Find recordings + notes in our online resource space

Join the WhatsApp chat for trouble-shooting + connecting with your cohort

JOIN THE CLUB

REGISTRATION OPEN NOW UNTIL JANUARY 15

Program Season: February 6th to March 26th


Tuesdays + Thursdays weekly @ 4:30-6:30pm Pacific Time

+ some 9am PT days for european + eastern time zones


What it’s like inside Hide Club:

A twice-weekly live, recorded call on Zoom. A dive into each category of natural hide tanning -> plus the how-tos on building your own tanning practice.

We talk hide sourcing, hide preservation, and techniques to make it work for you.

You get guidance to build the 2 pieces of tanning equipment every tanner needs: a scraping beam + softening frame.

Winter 2026 is an ambitious Hide Club program. We are tanning:

  • Fishskin Leather

  • Bark-tanned Sheepskin Rug

  • Smoked Deer Buckskin

BYO fish skin (we show you how to skin a fish fillet) or sub for rabbit or small pelt.

BYO sheep + deer hides or purchase a Materials Kit and receive these hides from us.

GET YOUR SPOT

If you are brand-new to this craft

Or if you’re tanned on your own and you know how daunting it is

And most of all, if hide tanning means more to you than you can say

You belong in Hide Club.

Hide Club gets you situated with confidence in the complexities of this natural craft, from its methodology to its cultural contexts to its re-creation in your everyday life.

What you get in HIDE CLUB

  • You’ll know exactly what’s going on under the microscope in hide tanning

  • You’ll learn the difference between each natural method + how to experiment, hybridize, and innovate

  • You’ll be able to re-create the process at home long after the program ends

  • You’ll be a more knowledgeable, perceptive, and skillful tanner

More details coming after general entry opens

  • Our Tuesday + Thursday schedule with hide tanning details will be posted here

  • Our guest speak this season: Meagon Anishibanie, hide tanner, trapper, and educator

We explore options how to adapt this complex craft into everyday life. We hold reverence for the animals whose hides we work. We respect the lineages that innovated this craft tradition. We explore our own lineages + connect hide tanning to them. We talk science. We tell stories. We laugh at our mistakes. And we’re here for the awkward parts of learning as much as for the game-changing aha! insights that you get with each hide you tan.

 FAQs

  • Thursday calls are 90 minutes and Saturday calls are 2 hours.

  • Yes.

    Every call is recorded and available in our online space for 12 months after the program end.

  • Some instruction is pre-recorded. This helps us move as a group through different time zones + supports the trickier, more technical aspects of hide tanning that need fancy video work.

    Pre-recorded videos will be uploaded in the online space.

  • Each week you get an email with a “here’s what we are doing in Hide Club” rundown. These emails are also alerts for any pre-recorded material.

    To receive emails, you need to be signed up as “yes” to receive email marketing from FloDesk, after registering.

    • Rabbit skin

    • Deer hide

    • Sheep skin

    • Framing string + needle

    • Alum

    • Calx (lime powder)

    • Leather oil

    • Protective gloves

    • and more!

    • the lumber for building your simple at-home equipment (we’ll give you a short list + directions on how to source it). We build these together on a call.

    • two litres/quarts of white vinegar

    • a large (10-gal) soaking bin (ie Rubbermaid)

    • a standard 5- or 6-gal bucket

    • your own tannins: we recommend 5-10 lbs for your sheepskin. Recommend suppliers and a how-to guide for harvesting are in the online space

    • our recommended tools. Click this link!

  • The main instructor is Mara Cur.

    Our tech artisan is…TBA! Bonnie Klohn has retired. We will miss you and we love you, B.

    We host guest speakers every year and we’ll announce this year’s speakers before the cohort begins.

I’m in!

JOIN FOUNDATIONS 2025 HERE
GET MY MATERIALS KIT

Click here to grab your materials kit.

You can do this before or after choosing your tuition tier.

It’s not just the skill of hide tanning you grow with each hide you tan

It’s hands-on capableness. it’s connection to ancestry.

It’s community, it’s resilience.

words from hide club

  • “All I want to do is gush about how awesome it was and how much more there is to learn. I miss the gathering and all the check-ins."

    Renée-Lynn D

  • “Thank you again for creating and curating such a magical space and community.”

    Katelyn K

  • "For so many of us that are hide tanners, the feeling of magic, wonder, and restoration is palpable- this coursework is the inner knowing, made tangible."

    Emily M

  • “I have left the program feeling held, supported, witnessed, and celebrated by this particularly impressive and deeply kind and supportive community. I feel well resourced + more equipped emotionally, practically, and spiritually to engage in right relationship to this craft ."

    Marissa S

  • "Such a depth of knowledge from the teachers/mentors and peers alike. There are so many nuances captured in each of our hide practices."

    Jackson R

  • "The flow of the program was seamless - each session intentional and rich, with enough repetition and hands-on learning to gain confidence and learn quickly. Well done, really, what a successful transition to offering something so tactile online. I’m in awe!"

    Laura H

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