Washing your buckskin clothing, and why you really ought to
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- A lot of people ask me if you can wash brain tanned buckskin clothing, and the answer is: Dear lord, yes! And please do!
While some leathers are damaged by getting wet and dry, your buckskins will hold up a lot better if you take the layer of grunge down regularly. I don't recommend just throwing them in the machine though. Here are my recommendations for washing your buckskin clothing, and why.
Using a pocket computer to learn the old ways ! What a world ! Thank you!
This answered so many of my questions! Thank you!
Yes! Big thanks for this how to!
Really enjoying your buckskin videos. Keep them coming!
I have often wondered what to do to buckskin and keep form damaging it. Good info! Thank you.
Great video thanks for sharing your time
hey Woniya thank you for being able to share your love and spirit. I wish you and I had been close friends in this life. I am finding my way to becoming just as connected to nature as you are but I am far from the end goal. Woniya thank you being an inspiration.
Great advice , thank you , cheers young lady :)
Nice mam. Thanks for showing! Valueable informstion to keep buck skin fresh and cared for as long as possible.
Thanks Woniya, I just watched your Visio on caring for your buckskin.
Thank you
Nice thanks good information
Wishing that you were my mom. Im thankful for these videos, ill teach my daughter these skills when shes old enough, the way i wish my mom had.
love the description “not warm enough to leave your hand in indefinitely” our own bodies are calibrated thermometers for the world around us
totally! Temperatures are so abstract, trust the body to know what matters!
Thanks very informative
Thanks for this. What happens if you use sinew thread for sewing the clothing and it gets wet? Will the stitch loosen? Ive heard sinew will stretch with moisture
Very good to know. Thanks woniya. Hoping to actually finally smoke some this year and make leggings.
Do you ever use a conditioner. People use lotion on the skin, does this apply here?
Thank you for posting this and all of your other videos! My grandmother made a beautiful buckskin jacket about 45 years ago and it has been sitting in their basement since then. I was fortunate to inherit it but was wondering how to clean it! Thank you for this video and the others you post - you have inspired me!
very cool, though fair warning that a lot of things called "buckskin" are actually chrome tanned, not true brain tanned buckskin, so before you wash it using the method I talk about here be sure it is brain tanned. I would hate for washing it to ruin you ur grandmother's beautiful jacket if it is chrome tanned "buckskin"
Buckskin Revolution thank you!!! i am going to look into it more! i appreciate it!
Great channel enjoy it👍
I LOVE buckskin clothes 💖 💖 💖
This is wonderful. What do you recommend when your buckskin gets musty smelling? Thank you.
you're great!
Haha, thanks Kelly! Your great too! Hope you are doing beautifully wherever you are!!
Thank you
Can I use the creek in my backyard to clean my buckskins
Great video. Thank you. On a completely different note, what do you use on your skin (face care routine)? And I'm completely serious. Your skin looks amazing!
thank you, honestly, I mostly don't use anything at all. Healthy life style, diet, exercise, etc, and probably some measure of genetics are much more factors, but i do like andalou naturals lotions and have used those for a year, the thousand roses face lotion
I'm thinking about purchasing a western style buckskin longcoat. It's got fringe, conchos and hand painted metis designs on it.
How would you go about caring for it and how durable do you think it would be in weather?
If you'd like I can send pictures or a link to the website in an email.
Any advise on gettin wrinkles out of buckskin? Found an old 1940s/50s jacket, I think it still has some life left but had been sitting crumbled up for years.
I try not to clean mine until it really needs it. But when I do I'm useualy out camping and then I hand wash in the river no soap, and use a smokey fire to dry it and as it's drying i stretch it a bit. A little miscoloration or staining after several years use should be expected. It gives your skins character .lol
Do you have or know of any buckskin skirt patterns? Im finishing one up right now and want to make my daughter a nice skirt
I have place my buck skins in my dryer on air dry with a half dozen tennis balls and this seems to work very well. What are your thoughts on this?
Please let me know. Thanks! ATB Sam Adler
I would be concerned about the heat and the wear on the buckskin, I think it would shorten the garments life span, but it all depends on your priorities right? It certainly sounds more convenient than the way i do it, but requires electricity and heats up your house, etc, etc. The price we pay sometimes for "convenience" can be pretty inconvenient, depending on how you look at it
I didn't mean "thank you question mark!" I meant thank you! Thank you! : -)
I followed you! You're welcome Diane!
Hello Ma'am, I have a ton of buckskin lying around and am looking at making a wool Anorak. If I were to layer these, would you recommend the buckskin underneath and the wool on top? Or the other way around?
definitely buckskin on top of wool- the wool provides the insulation and the buckskin breaks the wind and keeps that warmth in
@@BuckskinRevolution Thanks a ton!
After soaking or washing your buckskin, could you wear them while they dry so they mold perfectly to your figure? When working with other types of leather, it feel like wetting it gives it a bit of "memory" when it dries. Love the videos!
For sure .. It's even advised to do so for the same reason you said, forming to your body.
The knees / elbows will become extremely baggy.
Where can I buy buck skin from
Using detergent would be bad because it will cut the grease and fats in the hide, what about tallow and lye soap? Would that actually help keep it conditioned?
The soaps i use, when i use soap are fat and lye based, but they don't really condition the hide as the fats nature is changed through the saponification process
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Great info not readily available, well until now.
I was wondering about care...Thank you? Also, is being removed after a few years wear anything you've ever heard of or tried?
Is what being removed after years of wear something I've heard of?
@@BuckskinRevolution aghh! Re-smoked!? Lol!
that makes more sense! Yes,, some people do it, but you shouldn't need to. In 25 years of wearing buckskin i have never had a hide get stiff over time or need to be resmoked. if that happens I believe it is only because it wasn't properly smoked on the first place. If resmoking is desired for coloration, it is much better to dye the buckskin with a natural , tannin based dye like black walnut, than to resmoke
@@BuckskinRevolution yes, it was the color I was thinking of as you were sharing the portion on washing. Thank you for your response. I've been so inspired to tan my goat hides because of your lessons. And my dumb tablet completely replaces my words as it chooses. Trying to be more careful! Again, thanks!
How do I clean bark tanned leather pants?
I honestly don't have much experience washing bark tan as I tend to use it only for outerwear, bags, tool covers, etc, not for the kind of clothing I wash regularly.
@Buckskin Revolution thanks for getting back to me
What is your website again?
Found it! It’s buckskinrevolution.com
yep!
Any relation to Kevin from Bozeman?
nope, i have two cousins named kevin, but they have different last names and are on the east coast
Okie dokie. Thx
Is buckskin a another name for brain tan skins?
people use it for other types of leather, but mostly the use are poor chrome tanned imitations of real brain tanned buckskin. In its truest sense yes, it refers to brain tanned deerskins, but you can't trust that that is what you are seeing when something is labeled "buckskin"
Serious shrinkage!
asISeeThosePantsSeemToHaveHolesInThem.
Thank you