David Rose (Shéom)
Notice how the hide sack is naturally 'ballooning. He puts his sacks together with either glue or a sewing machine. The really tight seam that results holds most of the smoke in, which creates this effect, and produces more evenly smoked hides.
Shéom was the main person who taught me how to tan. He taught the dry-scrape method. Nowadays he is mostly using the wetscrape method from the book 'Deerskins into Buckskins'. Shéom custom makes beautiful braintan garments, for contact info check our Directory of Tanners.