NEW ONLINE: FISH SKIN LEATHER MAKING & CRAFTING

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Discover how to make beautiful fish skin leather using a wide range of flowers, leaves, and fungi to create unique craft items. This course goes far beyond (although not excluding) the traditional and well-known tanning methods using bark, eggs, brains and urine. Our ancestors were in a deep way connected to the land. We are the land and our ancestors are buried in her lap. With this in mind, and while walking the ancestral landscapes themselves, Fergus and Charissa started to feel that there must have been more plants and plant parts then just the various tree barks that were traditionally used for tanning in the (prehistoric) past. This lead to many explorations of both inner and outer landscapes, tapping into their own intuitions and listening to the plants themselves, and to co-creative experiments with beautiful wild herbs, fungi, and even seaweeds with which to successfully tan fish skin. Drawing on over 100 different botanicals, recipes and methods came into being. And now they want to be shared with the world. In this course, spread over three Thursdays in January/February 2023, you will learn how to tan fish skin in different ways.  
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The focus will be on tanning fish skin with different wild plants. There will also be attention given to tanning methods using tea, because even recipes of this kind can be quite challenging to find out. The online course is very practical, and different methods and recipes will be shown and explained in depth. After the course you will be able to happily tan fish skins in different ways yourself and you will know which plants to use and in which recipe. Besides learning how to tan fish skin in experimental ways, you will also learn how to craft with fish skin leather. Are you going on an experimental fish skin leather making journey with us? Each session will be live with plenty of time for questions and answers. Recordings of sessions will be available to watch at a time of your choosing and free to access for 3 months after the completion of the course.  
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NOTE: The fee is for the full 3-session course.

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