My name is Patience. I grew up in the green mountains of Vermont but made my way around the world before deciding to call Oregon home nearly a decade ago. I’ve always been called to tend death. My deep reverence for Grief as Teacher has guided my hide tanning journey.

Each hide is tanned with care and without chemicals. Only salt, water, eggs, oil, bark, soap and smoke are part of the finished product.

All the hides I tan are salvaged from the waste stream of the commercial meat industry. Most parts of the animals that humans process on a large scale end up as waste. Each sheepskin was destined for the landfill.

Heartfelt Pelts is my attempt to give life after death. 

In service to the sheep, the Earth, and the Ancestors, these animals now live on in your homes and in your hearts.