HIDE!
בס"ד
7 Iyyar
I caught a fascinating documentary about the Dab Iyyiu, an Aboriginal People in northern Quebec. I learned a lot about how these First Nations people cure their hides by watching the family matriarch skin a lynx followed by the family patriarch dry the skin indoors on a board. It might be a more reasonable way for me to tackle qlaf manufacture, considering my current home setup (no garage or workshop space).
It was amazing!
& it was totally kosher & happened to be in keeping with the laws of kosher parchment making :)
For my post on preparing deer skins for the mitzvah of Sefer Torah, click here.
Shabbat shalom, everyone!
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4 Comments:
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Yeah, that's an interesting fact that I came across in my studying how to prepare kosher skins back in March. G@d works in mysterious ways ;)
Personally, I'd rather use brains to process a hide than the animal's poop, which I already wrote about.
www.braintan.com is an excellent resource, and I highly recommend it.
the HideOut has lots and lots of posts going back years - any question you might have is answered.
BS"D
Thanks, Kangi, & welcome to my blog...interesting site you have there.
Deer brains are used to tan skins in making buckskin - tanning is a later stage of the process that isn't performed when you're making qlaf. So, if you're going to make buckskin, you do all the same things to make qlaf except that you don't stretch the hides & dry them after they've been de-furred & soaked. Instead, you wring them out & put them in a tanning solution (which could be deer brains, but it doesn't have to be), & after that they get worked over & smoked.
Hope that helps, Jen...
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Perhaps I misunderstood your question, Jen. I'm sure you'd never ask me a question that you already knew the answer to :)
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