TANNING, ANCESTRAL SKILLS & CEREMONY

A TRADITIONAL MICRO TANNERY & skills COURSES

IN THE HEART OF DARTMOOR

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A woman standing at the doorway of a brick building, wearing gloves and an apron, holding a large animal hide, with a metal container on the ground beside her.

Rekindled Tannery

A Traditional Micro-Tannery on Dartmoor

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A woman standing in a barn doorway, holding a large animal hide. She is wearing a dark sleeveless top, an apron, and gloves. There is a metal bucket on the ground beside her.

Who We Are

Jessie Watson Brown is a traditional hide tanner, ancestral crafter and ceremonial space holder, rooted in Dartmoor. Her work weaves ancient craft, nature, ceremony and animism.

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Hello friends I’ll be having a bit of time off this app for the next few months. If you’d like to get in touch please email Oakandsmoketannery@gmail.com Blessings
What culture emerges when we make beauty from the deer’s bodies? When hands meet bone and antler, something in us settles. Through tactile relationship we can drop into a place of slowness, of deeper breath and of remembering. The slow craf
Butchery doesn’t feel like the right word here … but you know what I mean when I say it. I’d prefer to say 🩸 intimacy 🦴 dismembering 🩸 remembering 🦴 revealing 🩸 honouring Honouring the Deer offers a space where ceremony in
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