docteurshepherd
Songster
Not really. They can be gently surface cleaned. But tanned hides don't like water very much.
Tanned hides mean they can handle water without reverting back to a stiff rawhide type state, but yeah of course with that being said you shouldn't wash leather lol. Also, directed at op, taxidermy isn't the correct terminology. Taxidermy is the art of actually stuffing and mounting an animal to make it appear lifelike. This is just tanning. As for the hides, I don't know. Rabbit hides are so thin that I wouldn't make anything I'd be using a lot, so probably not anything to wear. Honestly it wouldn't be a bad idea to cover over a small end table as a decoration, or something along those lines.
@RosemaryDuck - Man, so sorry I just found this thread! I absolutely love tanning
Me too! I've done it literally since I was a kid. I like to go the traditional route of egg tanning, which is the same concept as brain but less gross, as you can imagine I have plenty of those lol, and smoking. It's truly becoming a lost art form, I don't know of anybody else my age that does it, let alone a more traditional form.
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