CUSTOM instruction
Customize your hide tanning experience
Private instruction, co-facilitated by Mara Cur + Mark Santamaria
Hides + materials provided or bring your own
1:1 Mentorship
Five days of tanning hides at the Fern + Roe studio on Vancouver Island
You tan 3 hides into leather textiles at a relaxed + focused pace
Instruction is tailoured to your skill level + niche curiosities
1:1 Mentorship is for you if:
You want to immerse in a totally made-for-you, on-the-land getaway
You have or want to start a hide tanning practice or business
You thrive learning solo or with a friend or partner: the 1:1 mentorship can accommodate two people working together!
GROUP HIDE CAMPS
You come to us or we travel to you
Bring hide tanning to your school, group of friends, or to your home community
Choose from 3-, 4-, and 5-day hide camp structures
A group hide camp is for you if:
You have a group of 8+ people excited to tan together
You can travel to Vancouver Island or have a venue ready
Your group is ready to commit, work together, and create beautiful buckskins and/or fur-on hides - that you all keep
Your hide facilitators
We are Mara and Mark. We met one hunting season in Montana when Mara was collecting hides for the year ahead and Mark was working as a game butcher. Shortly before our second hunting season together, we eloped.
Mark is now up in Canada and shares the Fern + Roe studio on Vancouver Island, making tools and custom tanned hides. We teach together for 1:1 mentorships at the studio and co-facilitate many private hide camps.
Pictured here: making an Acacia bark extraction for bark-tanned leather