Friday, 26 July 2013

The Uses Of Rawhide

By Ethan O. Tanner


Rawhide are already present way back to the early Americans. Rawhide uses consist of drum heads, shields, light shades, lace, furniture, wraps, and much more. Rawhide is very firm because is not tanned; it has merely already been cured and hair removed. Soak it in standard water for molding, cutting and framing. It cures, stiffens and retains its pattern.

Rawhide is generally and erroneously named leather. Rawhide was useful for various requirements for 1000's of years. Rawhide created from by scraping the skin thin, soaking it in lime, and then stretching it while it dries.

Rawhide is firmer and more brittle than other forms of leather, and is primarily found in uses such as drum heads or north west furniture where it doesn't will need to flex drastically. Additionally it is cut up into strips for usage in lacing or stitches, or in making many assortments of pet chews or bones.

Rawhide was implemented to make par fleches (envelope-like storage units), moccasin soles and ropes. Rawhide is what you commonly see on Native American drums, par fleches, etc. Rawhide is animal hide that steadily already been dried out (by salting). Rawhide is utilized in making from clothing and personal items to building components, furniture, and gear.

To explain further regarding rawhide, these are the untreated hide of an animal that continues to be in its normal condition. Numerous companies use rawhide for making low-friction, high-impact, smooth face hammers, mallets, These kind of rawhide mallets are perfect for tooling and stamping oak craft leather.

Prepared rawhide can be made at some large craft stores, saddlery retailers or leather distributors such as Leather Unlimited.com. Can prepared rawhide that include rawhide pigskin, rawhide goatskin, rawhide lace, rawhide drum covers, and many extra products.

Making your own rawhide is easier than tanning a hide for your novice, and is quite affordable. Once this is done, turning a raw skin into rawhide is a reasonably simple process. Saving it for later use can be done after the rawhide is dried, roll it gently and tie with a lace for storage. When you are ready to use the rawhide, soak it again in a five gallon bucket until it is soft again, usually about fifteen to twenty-four hours, depending on the thickness of the hide. If you soak a piece of rawhide, then something comes up and you aren't ready to use it when you planned, you can keep it hydrated for a a couple of days and it won't hurt it as long as you change the water at least once a day, depending on the temperature. Rawhide is really just skin that has been hair removed, and it has many varied uses.

Opportunities to work on such projects as drums, rawhide making, rawhide tanning, cradles, moccasins and many other unique 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 basically "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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