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    Home Tanning of Leather and Small Fur Skins
    Home Tanning of Leather and Small Fur Skins
    Home Tanning of Leather and Small Fur Skins
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    Home Tanning of Leather and Small Fur Skins

    By R. Frey

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 4, 2013
    ISBN9781447483335
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      Home Tanning of Leather and Small Fur Skins - R. Frey

      HAVING HIDES TANNED

      It may be more economical to have hides and skins tanned by tanners who are willing to tan one or more hides than to do the work on the farm or ranch. Some tanners tan only hides with the hair on for robes or coats; some also tan harness, strap, lace, and glove leather; others tan only harness, strap, or lace leather; and a few tan sole leather. Some accept one-half of the hide in payment for tanning the other half. That is, if a farmer sends a hide to be tanned, the tanner will send back one-half tanned into leather and keep the other half to pay for his work. This probably is the best way for farmers to get their leather.

      Depending on the size of the hide, the kind of leather, and the tanner’s prices and profits, the charge for tanning a hide with the hair on or making it into leather varies from $1.50 to $4 for calfskins, and from $5 to $8 a hide, or from 25 to 50 cents a square foot or a pound, for horse and cattle hides tanned into harness, lace, or glove leather.

      Definite prices can be obtained directly only from a tanner. In writing to tanners be sure to state exactly what kind of hides you have. Give the weight of each, and ask for prices for tanning them with the hair on, making them into robes or coats, or tanning them into the kind of leather you want. The hide you have may not be suitable for the kind of leather you want. It takes a 50-pound or heavier hide to make sole or harness leather. If you tell the tanner what you have, he can tell you what it will make. A list of tanners who tan leather and furs for farmers may be obtained by writing to the Eastern Regional Research Laboratory, Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, Chestnut Hill Station, Philadelphia 18, Pa. In supplying this list of names and addresses the Department assumes no responsibility for the reliability or quality of work of these tanners. The list simply gives the names of all who have informed the Bureau that they will tan one or more hides for farmers.

      As a rule, the tanner does not pay shipping charges either way. These, in addition to the tanning charge, must be paid by the farmer.

      The regulations for shipping hides by express are now very stringent. Express companies will not accept hides for shipment unless they are packed in a keg or other container that does not leak. Consult the nearest express agent about this before shipping.

      Be sure to tag each hide securely before it is shipped with your name and address and the kind of leather you wish made from it. Use a tough linen tag with a reinforced eyelet, and write plainly with indelible pencil. If tag comes off you probably will lose the hide.

      BUYING LEATHER BY THE SIDE

      Many farmers state that they are offered only 1 to 4 cents a pound for hides but are charged from 90 cents to $1.50 a pound for leather at retail. It may prove more economical in many cases to buy, either individually or cooperatively, leather in quantities larger than a pound or two.

      In December 1945,

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