03-13-2009, 04:56 PM
Quote:Why is shoe making connected to alum tawed leather? Would not other tanning methods be more appropriate for shoe making? Am I missing something here? If it has something to do with shoe making are we not just looking at vegetable tanned leather?
I don't know why, since tawed leather would seem innapropriate for something that will be repeatedly wetted, but there is a link to alum tawed leather and famous shoe leather from spain. You'll have to search, because I am drawing from memeory here, but it may have been called "Moroccan" leather and was red as I recall. Perhaps this was a composite tanned leather and the alum was used to make it creamy white for later dyeing.
Paul M. Bardunias
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