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Acorn Marky's Drums

and hides

Community Gatherings, Custom Drum Building, Drum & Hide Workshops

Upcoming Drum & Hide Workshops
contact Mark to register or schedule personal drum or hide work lessons (845) 668-0750
Family Hand Drum Workshop

Build a hand drum with your kid(s) or on your own
Hosted by Wild Earth

Saturday September 19th, Time TBD
175 Rock Haven Rd., Kerhonkson NY

 
To build your own hand drum please RSVP
Suggested Donation ($50-100) + materials cost
Community Drum Days 

Help build a drum, play drums, make leather & buckskin, hangout, or build your own drum.
By donation -- All are welcome.
Potluck meals



May 10, 16 &17, 10 am on...
@ 5 Madeline Lane Rosendale, NY
Personal Drum Making & Hides Workshops

Schedule with Mark to build your own drum(s) individually or with friends.
And/or to learn how to transform animal skins into hides, pelts, and leather.
Your'e welcome to bring projects you've started for guidance.
(Suggested donation $50-100/lesson, plus materials costs)


(Date - TBD)
@ 5 Madeline Lane, Rosendale  NY 12472

 
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Tuesday Apprenticship

Most Tuesdays I am working hides and welcome you to come learn by doing.
All are welcome, no experience necessary.  Kids must be accompanied.
(Suggested Donation - $20-40 per day, barter welcome)
10 - 3 , most Tuesdays 
@ 5 Madeline Lane Rosendale, NY
Please call in advance because plans can change.
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contact Mark to purchase, with questions, or to discuss a custom drum (845) 668-0750
Drums & Hides for Sale
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Elder Drum - SOLD

Lay Me Down - $3,000

(Hollowed out Maple tree

with white tail deer skin

Ash Stand)

Still Standing

(Hollowed out Oak tree with poke berry stained arms, & white tail deer skin)

The Traveler - SOLD

Moon Drums - $200 each

(14" Cedar Frame with

white tail deer skin,

painted with black walnut ink)

Raise Me Up - SOLD

Heart Drums

(Hollowed out Pine Tree, charred,

with white tail deer skin

painted with black walnut ink

Ash stands

Large Custom Hand Drums 

18" - $300    

20"- $350

Unpainted and Painted with 

black walnut ink

Small & Medium Custom Hand Drums 

12" - $150    

14" - $200

16" - $250

Unpainted and Painted with 

black walnut ink

Earth Drum - $200

(14" Ash Frame with

white tail deer skin,

The surface of the skin is soaked in tannin

from oak bark making a beautifully

unique drum face)

Inside Out - SOLD

(Termite eaten Sweetgum tree

with Mimossa Surface  Tanned

white tail deer skin

Cherry Stand with mirror)

Custom Drum Beaters - $50

(Various Wood species, buckskin or leather, 

cattail fluff or wool)

Leather - $25/square foot

(Real Handmade Leather made from deer skin using tannins from oak bark, acorns, mimossa bark, or sumac,

no toxic chmicals used, organic quality)

Sheep Skins 

(Hand tanned super soft sheep skins using tannin from oak bark, acorns, mimossa bark, or sumac leaves)

Rawhide - $15/square foot

 (Real handmade deer skin rawhide, no chemicals, unbleached)

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Wallets - $100

 (Handmade leather using

deer skin and tannin

from oak bark,

acorns, mimossa bark, or sumac leaves)

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