

Most furs are hand groomed and even ironed, a service not found in many tanneries. We endeavour to honour our Heritage and our Landscape in a highly sustainable way. Here at Golden State Tannery, Inc., we use our own unique formula with lusters and oils that make your hides shine and minimize soiling. “Traditional values are at the heart of all our work. We provide a variety of experiences and courses based on traditional Scottish hide tanning and ancient crafts. We produce bespoke orders for leatherworkers, crafters, shooting Estates, distilleries, museums, drum makers and small holders. We produce various types of leather and hides, specialising in high quality rawhide for drum making, buckskin, sheepskin rugs, bark tan leather and deer hide rugs. Water use and wastewater generated at the artisanal tannery is less than the 3540L of water/kg raw hide and 3040L of wastewater/kg raw hide widely reported in literature for industrial leather manufacturing industries (Thanikaivelan et al., 2005). Every hide is tanned naturally and responsibly, without the use of heavy metals or harsh. The Tannery is a small, women-owned and operated company that strives to treat animals, the environment, and their customers with respect. Our leather is produced from hides and skins, utilising fish skins from Scotland’s finest smoke salmon suppliers, sheepskins from small crofts and deer hides from Estates, Farms and Scotlands wild landscape. Driftless Tannery is located in Southwestern Wisconsin’s beautiful driftless region. Our Tannery, unlike many others uses only natural materials and traditional methods. Our highly sustainable enterprise relies on the use of natural materials such as oak and willow bark sourced locally from rural Estates. 2 Crafting 3 Locations 4 Gallery Characteristics They are simple wooden saw horses with hides to be tanned draped over them. The processes that we use are based on Scotland’s rich history of leather tanning and forestry. Your customers will enjoy their beautifully tanned flat hides for many. Have a lot of deer to mount and running behind possibly eliminate myself from tanning.
TANNERY HIDES TROUTDALE PRO
Reason I ask is been using pro 1 for couple years with good success (super white,great stretch and no slip whatsoever) but don’t know longevity of product. The lustering agents used dramatically improve hair sheen for a shiny and silky look and feel. 5 Honest opinion on quality comparing tannery using lutan fn or in house pro1 submersible LTC. Your skins are lubricated with our special in-house blend of softening oils. One of Scotland’s last Tanneries to produce traditional rawhide and bark tan leather. With a dry tan from Quality Fur Dressing, you will spend less time carding which improves productivity.

The Woodland Tannery is a small, family run Traditional Tannery.
