10-06-2021, 06:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-06-2021, 06:42 PM by Crispianus.)
You may be interested in this, Sämischegerben essentially "tanned" with fish oil, the main requirement is clean and dehair the skins and then work in the oil, these people do it in the family waterpowered hammerwalken pretty much the same as its been done for the last 300 years, the 1979 "Der gerber" is worth a look since its still pretty much by hand:
https://www.gerberei-kolesch.de/mediathek
There are lots of things used these days for veg tanning the principle is the same though the main difference is the process has been mechanised to speed it up... and of course many different recipes are used to produce leather with different properties...
https://www.gerberei-kolesch.de/mediathek
There are lots of things used these days for veg tanning the principle is the same though the main difference is the process has been mechanised to speed it up... and of course many different recipes are used to produce leather with different properties...
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
