Home Tanning of Leather and Small Fur Skins. Page: Front Inside
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RDINARILY hides and skins should be tanned only by experienced
tanners. Sometimes and in some places, however, the
spread between the receipts for hides and the cost of leather warrants
the farmer in tanning for himself.
The inexperienced cannot hope to make leather equal in appearance,
or possibly in quality, to that obtainable on the market, but farmers
and ranchmen should be able to make serviceable leather for most
farm purposes by carefully following the directions here given.
It is never advisable for an inexperienced person to try to tan
valuable fur skins or large hides to be made into coats, robes, or rugs.
The results would be disappointing, both in appearance and in quality.
Small fur skins or skins of low market value, however, can be tanned
for home or country use according to the directions given in this
bulletin.
Contents
Page Page
Having hides tanned 1 Tanning hides and skins for
Buying leather by the side-__--_ 2 leather-Continued.
Home tanning ____ __ _ 3 Chrome-tanned leather-.. 14
Tanning hides and skins for Alum-tanned lace leather___ 19
leather
________ _ 3 Tanning fur skins ----------
20
Preliminary operations ---
5
Bark-tanned sole and harness
leather--_
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Washington, D. C. Revised February 1954
Slightly revised February 1962
For sale by the Superintendent of D)ocuments, U. S. Government Printing Office,
Washington 25, D. C.
Price 15 cents
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Rogers, J. S. (Jerome Stanley), b. 1884 & Clarke, Ira D. (Ira Doup), 1890-. Home Tanning of Leather and Small Fur Skins., book, February 1962; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1786/m1/2/: accessed May 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.