RE: Making a deer hide blanket...
the best way, is to send it off to a tannery and have it professionally tanned. Doing it yourself often leads to results that are less than perfect. It takes alot of work to shave a hide thin enough, then "breaking" it and oiling it and breaking it somemore. I've done one and I did a beaver rug, I'll never do it again! Just a little advise: deer hair makes terrible blankets. They willlook good fora while, but deer hair is hollow and pretty fragile. It doesn't take alot to break the hairs off. Just my advise.