pig skin

Early this week, my family had killed a pig for the winter. We spent most of this week making sausages, bacon, smoked ham and much more. My grandmother was telling me about the skins inside the pig, specifically the one that protects the lard and how it reminded her of my project with the latex. I removed the skin and stretched it in our cellar, thinking it might be worth a bit of research. The skin which was soft and very sticky at first eventually hardened and has become the same skin as that of a drum. This also led me to think about stretching the skins and playing with the latex castings that I've been covering the town with!