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Join us for a three day Viking age Butchery, cooking and hide tanning course at Moorforge Viking Settlement, Cumbria. Overnight stay at Moorforge is included - Just bring your own tent and camp kit.Breakfast and Dinner will be provided, along with tea and coffee, however you will be expected to help prepare food and wash up in between hide tanning. Camping is available from Thursday 28th March at 18:00 to April 1st at 10:00
Day 1:
You'll get hands on with skinning and butchering a deer and then create some tasty food, using replica Viking and Saxon cookware and knives.
You’ll also learn about some of the surprising historical uses for various parts of the animal, the best ways to cook each part and how to make sausages like a Viking!
Come along and learn to Eat like a Viking!
Day 2 & 3:
Explore the historical tradition of bark tanning your own sheepskins. During this course you will learn all about historical tanning and leatherworking, from a team of historical craftspeople in a stunning Viking settlement. This course is suitable for beginners or those with previous tanning experience.
We will have plenty time to enjoy the following:
-learning ancient tanning methods practiced in early medieval
Europe
-learning about which barks to harvest for tanning
-producing beautifully tanned hides which you can use to make rugs or bedrolls for historical reenactment
-evenings around the fire in the longhouse
The hides will be supplied already skinned and fleshed, so the muckiest part is dealt with (we have the deer skins harvested from the butchery course so if anybody wants to learn this process there is plenty of opportunity too)
Over two days you will learn how to correctly tan, oil, and soften your hide into a fully finished hide to take home.
The goal of this course is to learn the historical tradition of bark tanning that was practised by early medieval cultures across europe, and gain the skills and confidence to continue with hide tanning projects in the future.
The Butchery and cooking is hosted by Craig Brooks (Saxon Forager) and the tanning is hosted by Hamish Lamley from Pictavia Leather.
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Moorforge Viking Settlement, Cockermouth, United Kingdom
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