So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Friday, November 20, 2009

Rawhide

By Ethan O. Tanner

Rawhide dates back to the early Americans. Rawhide uses include shields, drum heads, lace, lamp shades, furniture, wraps, and much more. Rawhide is very firm as it has not been tanned; it has only been de-haired and cured. Soak it in water for molding, cutting and shaping. It dries, stiffens and retains its shape.

Rawhide is often times and mistakenly called leather. Rawhide has been utilized for several different purposes for numerous years. Rawhide is arrived at by scraping the animal pelt thin, soaking it in lime, then stretching out it while it dries out.

Rawhide is more inflexible and more breakable than other forms of leather, and is principally encountered in intents such as drum heads or western articles of furniture where it does not require to flex importantly. It has as well been cut into strips for utilization in lace or sewing, or for making several varieties of dog chews or bones.

Rawhide was practiced to form par fleches (envelope-like containers), moccasin soles and ropes. Rawhide is what you usually encounter with Native American drums, par fleches, and more. Rawhide constitutes an animal pelt which gets dried out through salting. Rawhide represents everything from article of clothing and personal items to construction materials, piece of furniture, and tools.

Rawhide is the raw skin of an animate that remains in its simple state of matter. Several companies apply rawhide to make low-friction, high-impact, soft surface mallets. The rawhide mallet is super ordinate for tooling and stamping oak craftsmanship leather.

Prepared rawhide can be purchased at some large craft stores, leather distributors such as Leather Unlimited and saddlery shops. Prepared rawhide may include rawhide goatskin, rawhide pigskin, rawhide drum covers, rawhide lace, and many other products.

Attaining your personal rawhide is a lot easier than tanning a pelt for the novice, and quite inexpensive. Once this is complete, working a raw pelt into rawhide comprises a reasonably uncomplicated function. If you'd wish to observe it for afterwards , once the rawhide is dry, roll up it cautiously and tie-up with a lacing for stashing away. When you are ready to use the rawhide, soak it once more in a 5 gal bucket until it is soft once more, generally more or less fifteen to twenty-four hours, depending on the thickness of the peel. If you soak a piece of rawhide, and then something arises and you aren't ready to use it as you thought, you can maintain it hydrated for a few days and it won't harm providing you are capable of changing the body of water at least once per day, contingent on the temperature. Rawhide is in reality just skin that's been dehaired, and it has several assorted usages.

Opportunities to work on such crafts as drums, rawhide making, rawhide tanning, cradles, moccasins and many other fascinating primitive technologies are great craft projects. First it must be converted to "rawhide". Once tanned, the rawhide achieves the soft substance of leather that we are familiar with. Dog chew toys are a good source of rawhide if you don't need large pieces. Why do you think we call it "rawhide". Rawhide is "raw" because it has not been tanned. Most of the leather we use today is tanned leather, but rawhide is still used to make many products even though it is not technically tanned.

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