America's Best Selling Tanning Guide. Over 165 photographs and illustrations bring you step-by-step from raw skin to velvety soft buckskin and then show you how to create beautiful garments and useful goods. You will also learn how to make rawhide and hide glue, tan in a wilderness setting and the best way to skin. History, humour and science make this book not only practical, but fun! Designed to be easily understood by the beginner yet rich with details for the experienced, this book teaches tanning as a natural process. No chemicals are needed! All the tools and materials are waiting around your home and land. While the tools are simple, having a great method is the key. This book has that method (see the following reviews). Buckskin is durable, soft, washable and warm. A hand-made garment for people all over the world for millennia, it breathes and stretches with your body, cuts the wind and won't tear on briars. It is excellent to wear hiking, hunting or around the house. Plus you don't need to hunt. ...easy to understand and useful if you're interested in preserving and using your deer hide to make a pair of trousers or leather gloves. Get started, buy a copy. Enjoy. -- Cody Beers, Wyoming Wildlife, March 1998 ...proves to be a comprehensive guide to natural leather making. -- American Library Association, BOOKLIST, December 15, 1997 By far the best book on the subject. -- Carla Emery, author, The Encyclopedia of Country Living Get this book. You'll be amazed at the unexpected ease of the process and more importantly your results. -- Jim Riggs, author, Blue Mountain Buckskin I have successfully completed dozens of buckskins under the mentoring of numerous experts. It is obvious that Matt has created a 'quantum leap' in the art. His process dramatically reduces the time and work, resulting in the nicest buckskin I have ever made. -- Jeff Damm, engineer and backyard tanner If a guy couldn't tan a hide with this he should stay out of the woods! -- Ted Fry, Raptor Archery Information and practical advice you won't find in any other book. Easy to read yet amazingly thorough, with just a touch of twisted humor in the right places. A terrific resource! -- Susan Jennys, Muzzleblasts, June 1998 Matt Richards brings tanning to a level of simplicity that is accessible to anyone. Experimentation combined with years of tanning for a living and a thorough study of leather chemistry, has resulted in a simple method that produces excellent results. -- American Survival Guide, January 1998 The authors intimate understanding of deerskins, tools, processes, and problems bears witness to a tremendous depth of knowledge about his craft. Deerskins into Buckskins is a highly recommendable work....this book deserves a place on your bookshelf -- Scott Jones, Bulletin of Primitive Technology, spring 1998 Detailed photographs and illustrations, a simple to follow style, and fourteen years of experience teaching thousands of people how to tan, allow Matt Richards to show you exactly what you need to know to successfully turn your deer, elk, moose or buffalo skins into the leather preferred by outdoorsmen and native peoples for millennia. You'll learn the traditional methods of brain tanning as well as how to use a dozen eggs or soap and oil instead. This revised and updated edition includes substantial improvements to the process that make it even easier for you to produce soft and durable buckskin. Praise for this book: "If a guy can't tan a hide with this he should stay out of the woods!" Ted Fry, Raptor Archery - "By far the best" Carla Emory, The Encyclopedia of Country Living - "amazingly thorough" Susan Jennings, Muzzleblasts magazine - "a comprehensive guide" American Library Association - "cuts tanning time and effort in half" American Survival Guide - "teaches with wit, clarity and ease" Backwoodsman Magazine - "You'll be amazed at the ease of the process" Jim Riggs Buckskin is durable, soft, washable and warm. A hand-made garment for people all over the world for millennia, it breathes and stretches with your body, cuts the wind and won't tear on briars. It is excellent to wear hiking, hunting or around the house. Plus, you don't need to hunt. Deerskins that would otherwise go to waste are available every fall from neighbors, locals and butcher shops. Matt Richards has been teaching tanning, tanning for a living, and wearing buckskin for over 25 years. His book Deerskins into Buckskins  has been the most popular tanning guide in the world since it was first published in 1997. He lives on a ranch in southern Oregon with his wife and daughters, where they enjoy hunting, gathering wild foods, gardening and going for a swim in the river. Tandy Leather Deerskins Into Buckskins Book 61967-01