This vintage book contains a complete handbook on tanning, with information on treating hides, skins and pelts of every variety. With step-by-step instructions and a wealth of useful, timeless information, this volume is highly recommended for modern readers with a practical interest in tanning and leather work. Contents include: "Soaking Green-Salted Sheepskins; Soaking Dry Sheepskins", "Removing the Wool; Formulas for Depilatories", "Applying the Depilatory Paint; Liming after Removal of the Wool", "Methods of Deliming (drenching) with Bran; Formulas for Sheepskins", "Deliming Glove Leather and Glazed Leather; Pickling with Acid and Salt", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.

Excerpt from Practical Tanning: A Handbook of Modern Processes, Receipts, and Suggestions Treatment of Hides, Skins, and Pelts, of Every Description Practical Tanning, here presented for the consideration and guidance of the Leather Industrials of the United States and foreign countries is distinctively an American up-to-date treatise; no English, French or German book having been consulted in its preparation. Furthermore, in it will be found nothing whatever copied from any previously printed American book. It is what its title imports, "A Hand-Book of Modern Processes, Receipts and Suggestions for the Treatment of Hides, Skins and Pelts of Every Description." It is the result of the experience and study of the author and of those of many other practical men with whom it has been his good fortune to come into association and consultation. One special feature of the volume to which he would call attention is that of the chapters on the Patented Processes of Tanning, Tawing, Depilating and Bating. These patents, which are given with sufficient detail to be clearly understood, serve to indicate the aims and ends of the most progressive and most intelligent investigators among tanners and chemists in the direction of placing this great industry upon a scientific basis, and what has been accomplished in that direction. The patents, the author has in most cases given with proper reserve, and without actual endorsement; but they are all suggestive, and therefore worthy of examination and investigation. In writing this book the author has aimed to put before his readers information relating to the manufacture of many kinds of leather at once valuable and interesting. He makes no claim to infallibility nor to be above criticism. The book does not cover the entire field of leather manufacture; it does, however, contain a large amount of practical information so presented that the leather worker can readily understand it, and having made it a part of his mental capital can utilize it with benefit to himself and to the product of his skill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Practical Tanning: A Handbook of Modern Processes, Receipts, and Suggestions for the Treatment of Hides, Skins and Pelts of Every Description Pickling and tanning 41 Coloring and fat-liquoring 42 Staking and finishing 43 Vegetable tanning processes for side leather; Material used for this purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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