Skin dressing
	You create a natural product Courses in skin dressing are arranged on demand and under personal management. Contents: The practical stages when dressing a skin are: Slaughter and salting of the skin Scraping and softening of the skin Washing and conservation bath Rinsing and greasing Drying and finishing The theoretical part contains: The skin and wool of different sheep breeds and furred animals Different dressing and tanning methods The chemistry and structure of the skin Tanneries in Sweden Environmental aspects Which skin is suitable for what? Educational visits The course in skin dressing gives you as a sheep owner, hunter and craftsman a basic knowledge about skins. It will give you the possibility to choose the right method of refinement and field of application. Carl Linneaus describes how the Sami people tanned their reindeer skins in his Lapland travels: ..."They skin the birch-bark. Then they scrape the bark of the birch-tree. They cook it fresh for the same time as fish, in water. Then they let it cool until you don't burn your hands, then they put the hide in it, that first has become bald from being soaked in lukewarm water and buried in the ground in the far corner of the crib, then taken up once a day and softened in warm water, til the hair comes loose. Then the hair is pulled off with the pulling iron, then it is put down in the bark. The next day it is warmed up again and when it has cooled, it is put down. The third day it is hanged up and dried in the air on a shadowy place. When it is half dry, they often cut it in pieces to make shoes."...	Enlarged pictures >>