Hide Club Spring 2026
How to Make a Sheepskin Rug
Learn to tan sheep skins online
in two different hide tanning methods
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50% until April 25!
Use code MAKEYOUROWN
Join Hide Club for only $123.50 CAD ($99 USD)
Join from anywhere in the world
I’m Mara and this is Fern + Roe Folk Tannery.
We tan sheepskin rugs here on Vancouver Island
with natural and safe ingredients.
And we have zero automation in our tannery, except a washing machine :).
When I first learned how to tan fifteen years ago, it seemed incredibly complicated.
No one could tell me exactly how much bark to harvest for bark-tanning, or why smoke tans a hide.
I spent years researching the minutia and science while building my tanning practice.
And I simplified the tanning process so much that each hide of my hides only takes a few hours of active work to complete.
Everything that I do at a production level, you can do at home.
The key to simple at-home hide tanning is this:
1. Learn to use passive techniques to let hides do the work
2. Learn “pause points” so you can stop and start as you need
3. Learn to work hides at the right time, so you spend your time and energy when it counts
You will learn all this online in Hide Club - we start live in May, 2026!
Hide tanning doesn’t have to look like this:
✘ spending hours and hours scraping
✘ breaking your back lifting and softening
✘ getting bald patches from wool falling out
✘ not knowing when a hide is done
✘ relying on store-bought ingredients
✘ using expensive power tools
✘ measuring out complicated recipes
✘ winding up with stiff leather
Instead, it can be straightforward and doable.
So that hide tanning can do for you what it does best:
get you grounded
connected to the land
and aligned with how humans move and live best.
Join now + get instant access to the online space -
it already has how-to videos and tons
of info on sheepskin hide tanning
Check out What you’ll Make ⤵︎
Anyone can tan a hide.
(yes that means you)
Our ancestors practiced this craft for millennia
(and they didn’t have power tools or shelf-stable orange liquids).
High-quality + plush sheepskins aren’t made with complicated ingredients
or through a one-thousand-step process.
They’re made by a systematic approach
- with clear knowledge of how hide tanning works.
How Hide Club Works:
Join now for instant access to the online space:
Learn so much about hide tanning before we even begin
Then we start live on May 7, 2026:
A Zoom call every Thursday.
Hide tanning walk-through videos every Friday and Monday.
Over 15 videos of hide tanning instruction plus real-time guidance.
And a group chat on WhatsApp to have fun with your cohort - and learn even more than you would alone.
How to Get Started:
Let’s Go 🐑
Join Hide Club here:
Use code MAKEYOUROWN for 50% off now til April 25
Hide Club: SHEEPSKIN TANNING
CA$247.00
One time
CA$84.00
For 3 months
Get your Kit here:
Know your Tanning Ingredients + Tools
Your bark-tanned sheepskin rug
(yep, you’re getting a brown {shearling} sheepskin in the Hide Club Kit!)
Your smoke-tanned sheepskin rug
White {lofty} wool, white leather
If you’re thinking about hide tanning, then hide tanning is for you
Hide tanning is as ancient as our first ancestors.
It is humanity’s first craft - how we clothed ourselves to travel continents and thrive.
But it’s more important today literally than ever.
I mean that.
Our ancestors didn’t have cell phones, infinite scroll, and keyboards.
They didn’t have perfectly-warm houses.
But they had stamina. And strength. And yes even regulated nervous systems.
They got all that from craft - like hide tanning.
We need hide tanning not just to make plush sheepskins (which you will)
But to hold onto our humanity in an unstable world.
Wet-scraping - the first step
Stretching a smoke-tanned sheepskin
Join Hide Club here:
Use code MAKEYOUROWN for 50% off now til April 25
Hide Club: SHEEPSKIN TANNING
CA$247.00
One time
CA$84.00
For 3 months