Generally the present day tannery is a factory provided with expensive machines, operated by skilled help under direction of someone with considerable knowledge of chemistry. Still the fact remains that good useful leather can be profitably made by hand under some conditions. Originally published in the 1920s, this book contains information on how to tan and make leather at home from cattle, horse, calf, sheep, goat, deer and other hides and skins. It also explains how to skin, handle, classify and market.
Contents Covered:
- Introductory
- Selection of Hides and Skins
- Skinning, Curing and Storing
- Equipment and Tools
- Materials
- Methods and Terms
- Soaking and Liming
- Unhairing and Deliming
- Tanning
- Softening and Finishing
- Alum Process -- Lace Leather
- Chrome Process
- Acid Process
- Bark Process
- Buckskin
- Robe Skins
- Miscellaneous
- Salting and Curing Hides
- Preparing Hides and Skins for Market
- Market Classes of Hides and Skins
- Methods of Marketing Hides and Skins
| Format: | PDF Digital Reprint, e-Facsimile |
| No. of Pages: | 173 |
| Page Size: | A4 (210mm × 297mm) |
| Download Size: | 48.9 MB |
