Home Tanning of Leather and Small Fur Skins e-bog

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: "e;Leather Crafting"e;, "e;Having Hides Tanned"e;, "e;Buying Leather by the Side"e;, Home Tanning"e;, "e;Tanning Hides and Skins for Leather"e;, "e;Bark-Tanned Sole and Harness Leather"e;, "e;Chrome-Tanned Leather"e;, "e;Alum-Tanned Lace Leather"e;, "e;Tanning Fur Skins"e;, "e;Soaking and Fleshing"e;, 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.