On this Hide camp mini workshop you will be given the basic knowledge and skills to naturally tan animal hides with hair on. You will be working on your own individual hide and by the end of the course, leave with a finished beautiful soft, leather sheepskin and the experience to take the skills learned into other areas of tanning various hides, including small mammals like rabbit, fox, hare and fish.

Somewhere in our not too distant ancestry we were ALL born of a tribe.

This tribe of people loved the Earth and worked alongside her. They nurtured her, sacrificed their blood over her. Worshipped and protected her. Through time and history these tribes, our ancestors became infected, by a new, more disturbing and disconnected world and way of living. If you find in your life you still hold glimpse’s of this original tribe and life. Hold onto them fiercely, the old ways, the pure and gentle ways so that every generation to come will be offered the chance of restoration for our world. If they are lost, we are also lost.

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Lekawehatie Kneafsey

Wild Wool Shepherdess is a shepherd who creates unique, wild and rugged woven rugs, tanned leather hides, Felted sheeprugs and Wild Woman Collars with wool harvested from her own flock of organic, heritage breed sheep which conservation graze hay meadows to help support our declining wildlife and improve soil structure. A practitioner of traditional, ancestral skills is now teaching small holders and individuals through workshops and retreats how to bring back value to wool and live more sustainably in harmony and connection with our land, wildlife, waters and Mother Nature. She is also a guardian of Wolves and wild Birds.

Wild Wool Collar Making Workshop