Mid Gatherer Mukluk

Price: $269.00 CAD
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PLEASE NOTE: Our Vibram Sole Mukluks tend to fit big. We recommend sizing down by one full size versus most other footwear.
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Tanning is an intricate process that requires time and patience.

Traditionally, our ancestors used flat, palm-sized stones with beveled edges as scrapers. They also used bone, wood and trees in their work, pulling the skins back and forth around a smooth-bark tree until the hide was ready for a four-day bath in ash and water that would completely remove hair from the hide.

After that, a time-tested mixture of sunlight, brain-tanning and hand-smoothing would dry and soften the hide into a perfect piece of leather fit for use as clothing, pouches or blankets.

Images and text courtesy of Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada

 


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