Working with another group of scouts on the leatherwork merit badge, which requires you to make something of leather. Most of the boys chose coonskin with a few going for the skunk hat.
Here are some pictures of the various steps. To earn the badge your project must include 5 of these steps - design work, pattern transfer, cutting leather, stamping, punching holes, assembly by stitching, dying, dressing edges.
Shipment of pelts from fur trader in Washington;
Learning to care for leather item (winter boots);
Finished coonskin caps & skunk skin caps;
We also visited an amazing taxidermist & his gallery; (this fills the requirement to visit a leather related business)
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