Want to honor the whole rabbit and save its beautiful fur? Here's how to master the art of preserving and tanning the pelts of rabbits and other animals.

Rabbit skin blankets have probably been around for thousands of years. They were made by indigenous peoples of North… by mfalconer

Learn to use all of the parts of a meat rabbit so nothing goes to waste. We'll teach you how to put every part of a rabbit to good use...

This is the process that we used to make our rabbit foot key-chains. You can also see the video version of this How-To here: How to make a rabbit foot key chain Items needed: (affiliate links

Craft and don a coonskin cap like the pioneering greats Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett with this instructional guide.

Usually you pull the entire rabbit skin off in one and you get a type of “tube” during harvesting. Meat and fat needs to be scraped away from the inside of the skin. At the class someone mentioned that you can use the rabbit’s hipbone as a scrape. Once the skin is cleared of meat it can be tanned by smearing it with the brain of the animal. Then it can be smoked. Salt is often used to prepare hides but apparently it makes the hide very hard.

My first attempt at making a rabbit fur hat turned out pretty good, but there was a lot of trial and error that went into making it. We r...

and stay warm... the really old-fashion way!

Did you know that there is more than one way to skin a squirrel? Read our post to find out which method will suit you best.

Well I tanned quite a few of our pelts last year, and have been hunting all over the internet on how to sew leather/fur. There sure doesn't seem to be...