While there’s no doubt that draping one’s home in animal hides brings with it a whiff of hillbilly, it’s also deeply satisfying to use as much as we can of our animals.Īs an experimental run, most of these skins are already accounted for, but if you would like first pick on future hide harvests, let us know.0 comments Melbourne Cup was ‘for the birds’ this year and Carlie Wacker had a front row seat for all the action. Inside were the skins, transformed from their dusty, paddock hue: the lamb skins soft and creamy, the elder beasts a light, dappled grey with black spots. This week a package arrived from Port Elliot. As soon as the animals were killed, we drove the skins across to Port Elliot, where tanner Tony Scott salted them and enthusiastically took us on a tour of his tannery, one of the few surviving such establishments in Australia. Wiltshire Horns are not renowned for their hides, and while the abattoir workers looked at us a little askance, they played along. When we took our sheep to be slaughtered towards the end of last year, in the spirit of using the whole beast, we asked the meatworks if we could keep the skins. Our last hide sale saw the skins being employed intact in home decorating, as well as transformed in assorted craft projects (see Local and Bespoke’s car seat covers from our Wiltshire Horn hides here).Ĭheck out this year’s offerings at our Sheepskins for Sale page, and get in touch at if you’re keen! This year the Damara breeding is becoming ever more evident with plenty of soft browns and textures that range from silky long pile to short, curly and ever-so-soft. To our great excitement, the hides have now arrived, replete with all the eccentricities and quirks of our mixed breed flock. The animals are bred, raised, grazed and slaughtered on South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula, and the hides are tanned on the Fleurieu south coast at Tony Scott’s Southern Tanners, Port Elliot. In an effort to utilise the whole beast, in addition to mutton and lamb meat, we also offer hides from the sheep selected for slaughter at Yarnauwi. They are ready to attach to a belt and are the perfect size for children to pack pocket knives, binoculars, notebook and pencil, a small drink bottle, snack, or whatever else they might need for explorations in the wild! This piece is hand embroidered on cotton fabric and comes with a bamboo frame ready to hang.įinally, Joel has made a range of new leather adventure pouches, for adults and children alike! There are three different designs all made from our Damara sheepskins, which were raised, grazed and tanned on the Fleurieu, and completed with recycled leather trim and buckles. Their vivid pinks and silver greys really lift the landscape at dry and dusty times of year. The flocks that visit Yarnauwi love to wander around our weediest paddock eating thistle seeds. Sophie’s other “Galah” embroidery celebrates the Eulophus roseicapillus which is such a fun and ever-present bird in Australian country areas. This work is hand embroidered on cotton fabric and includes a wooden hoop frame. By Autumn they were all back and even more full of joie de vivre. They arrived in late winter, raised babies in mud nests, then took their babies for test flights around the shed before they fledged and left over the hotter months. Sophie’s new embroidery work “Welcome Swallow family” captures the joy and vibrancy of the swallow family which has taken up residence in the open bay of the Yarnauwi shed.
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