Things tagged as Buckskin.
Non Woven
For the most part (funny in English it is ' for the better part ) of human existence we did not weave. Skins of animals cured and smoked and later felted wool ...
Pigments, ivory.
I have been experimenting with natural pigments on buckskin; as a binder I have tried Gum Arabic which is a resin mixed with water. I have also tried water but seemed to ...
A Visit to the British Museum
In the North America section of the British Museum, there are a few buckskin robes. they are decorated with beads and pigments. One beautiful shirt is painted with a pattern of small ouitlined ...
Smoked Buckskin
The finished hide of a small roe deer doe. Fleshed. Bucked for a week in lye. Grained on a beam. washed in a the river overnight. Membraned. left to dry. soaked in eggs. rubbed and stretched for 6 hours to ...