Hide Tanning Course

This four day Hide Tanning Course will equip you with all the skills you need to skin, prepare and cook a deer.

Working through all the different stages of hide preparation and tanning a hide using natural resources. You will skin, scrap and soak the hide and make needles for sewing from the bones and sinews. Our instructors will be on hand to help you design a bag or pouch to sew from your skin and show you some of the items they have produced them selves.

Price includes all food, materials and instruction.

Woodland Ways are one of the country’s premier Bushcraft & Survival course and equipment providers.

Woodland Ways operates fun, practical and realistic Bushcraft & Survival courses throughout the UK. Based in our main camps in Oxfordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Lincolnshire our team of instructors will work with you to move beyond the realms of pure survival.

Survival skills are key to the knowledge we pass on, but we go further than this on each and every course - into the realms of Bushcraft. Bushcraft for us is about making the most sustainable use of the natural resources available to you in order to work in harmony with your environment.

With a relaxed, fun and friendly approach we believe is the best way for our instructors to share with you the skills of our ancestors. Through practical, hands on training, we will guide you through many different aspects of bushcraft, including building your own shelter, collecting and purifying water, fire lighting by friction, traps and snares, game and mammal preparation, navigation and natural foods to name just a few.