This deluxe reprint Legacy Edition of Albert B. Farnham's Home Tanning and Leather Making Guide is full of old-time tips and methods for preserving and working your own leathers, buckskin, and furs. Originally published in 1922, this handy little guide touches on every aspect of the fur and leather making process.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to tanning leather, with information on tools and equipment, required materials, different techniques, benefits, common problems, and many other related aspects. Easy-to-digest and full of invaluable tips, this handbook is highly recommended for novice leatherworkers, and would make for a useful addition to collections of leatherworking literature. Contents include: “Leather Crafting”, “Having Hides Tanned”, “Buying Leather by the Side”, Home Tanning”, “Tanning Hides and Skins for Leather”, “Bark-Tanned Sole and Harness Leather”, “Chrome-Tanned Leather”, “Alum-Tanned Lace Leather”, “Tanning Fur Skins”, “Soaking and Fleshing”, etc. Many vintage books like this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality addition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on leather crafting.

2011 Reprint of 1922 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Arthur Robert Harding (July 1871 - 1930), better known as A. R. Harding, was an American outdoorsman and founder of several hunting and trapping magazines. He was also publisher, editor and author of many popular outdoor how-to books of the early 1900s. His company was known as the A. R. Harding Publishing Company of Columbus, Ohio and St. Louis, Missouri. This title is a comprehensive guide on the subject and provides valuable information for those who wish to tan and make leather from cattle, horse, calf, sheep, goat, deer and other hides and skins. It also explains how to skin, handle, classify and market the hides. Chapters on skinning, curing, storing, equipment, tools, materials, terms, unhairing, tanning, finishing, alum process, chrome process, acid process, bark process, buckskin, robe skins, salting and curing.