HIDE TIP OF THE MONTH

HTOTM is Fern + Roe’s (mostly-) monthly hide news.

We ask you: what’s your current hide question?

Answers are posted on Instagram stories.
One question becomes the month’s longform email - with details + tips from an experienced tanner.
It’s a Hide Blog ~ but interactive + community-based.

Scour below for the archives of HTOTM.

Hide Tip of the Month

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The last leg of my trip I went to the village of Sigtuna to Lotta’s Tannery. It was a dream in the making for seven years 🎉 Lotta Rahme wrote two self-published hide tanning books that I got my hands on in the early 2010s. She set me on my
Now there’s a twist 🐑 ✨ The Colourful Katahdin sheepskin rug course is coming up in two weeks. It was always also a combination-tan course: first alum-tawing our sheepskins + then smoking. It’s the last window before fire ban season t