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A few pics of some of my brain tan clothes
BowEd:
Yep it happens.I once scorched a buffalo hair on hide on the bottom edge.The skirt idea is works great.I'll show a picture of a gal who wanted her brain tan dress smoked good.She had stored it in her basement[very humid and damp]and mildew had grown on it.My method did get rid of that mildew and made it a really nice garment.
richardzane:
ha! that oughta work! :)
I know my longhouse ancestors hung hides in the longhouse
and you can bet the entire inside of the longhouse was black after a few years of cooking and winter fires.
they never looked all varnished and clean like the pristine longhouses built at tourist attractions.
likely smoke kept wood gnawing bugs at bay for awhile anyway.
An entire Tionnontate or Wendat village would move and rebuild every twenty years or so.
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