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

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No. of Pages: 173
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