This listing is for a :
- Commercial Brain Tanned Bison Leather
- 6.1 square foot (approx. 32"x 17")
- color is Smoke
- 1-9 1/2 ounce
- both sides suede-like
- soft & supple; very durable
- our largest customer base uses for: Beading & Native American Regalia
- This piece is very uneven in thickness; and is the one you will receive
THIS HIDE HAS EVERY CHARACTERISTIC OF A FULLY BRAIN TANNED HIDE. The temper is: soft & supple; as it is SUEDE-LIKE. It has been smoked!!!
- Advantages to smoking hides: brain tanned hides are the only hides, that once becoming wet then dry; will remain as soft as they were prior to becoming wet. Another way to look at this is: all other leathers become stiff, after going thru the wet/dry cycle, except brain tanned hides.
- When a hide is smoked, the non-water-soluble oil in the smoke bonds with the water-soluble oil in the soup, making all of it non-water-soluble. The smoke provides lubrication to the fingers within the hide, which is what keeps the leather soft.
PLEASE NOTE: THESE HIDES ARE COMMERCIAL BRAIN TANNED
