Primitive methods of leather manufacture -- Use of leather by the ancients -- Progress of leather manufacture in England -- Methods of production of leather -- Vegetable tannages -- Combination tannages -- Use of aluminium, iron and chromium -- Oil- and fat-leathers -- Difficulties of scientific treatment PAGE 1 The object of tanning -- Washing and soaking -- Removal of hair by liming -- Unhairing by putrefaction -- Unhairing and fleshing -- Deliming -- Bating, puering and drenching -- The vegetable tanning process -- Currying -- Alum, chrome and chamois leathers PAGE 7…
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