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2. Tanning (leather) - Wikipedia

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   Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather. A tannery is the place where the skins are processed. Historically, vegetable based tanning used tannin, an acidic chemical compound derived from the bark of certain trees, in the production of leather. An alternative method, developed in the ...

3. Buckskin (leather) - Wikipedia

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   Buckskin is the soft, pliable, porous preserved hide of an animal – usually deer – tanned in the same way as deerskin clothing worn by Native Americans. Some leather sold as "buckskin" may now be sheepskin tanned with modern chromate tanning chemicals and dyed to resemble real buckskin.

4. Leather - Wikipedia

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   The preparatory stages are when the hide is prepared for tanning. Preparatory stages may include soaking, hair removal, liming , deliming , bating , bleaching , and pickling . Tanning is a process that stabilizes the proteins , particularly collagen , of the raw hide to increase the thermal, chemical and microbiological stability of the hides ...

5. Leather production processes - Wikipedia

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   deliming - liming and unhairing chemicals are removed from the hide. bating - proteolytic proteins are introduced to the skin to remove further proteins and to assist with softening of the hide. [3] degreasing - natural fats/oils are stripped or as much as is possible from the hide. [4] frizing - physical removal of the fat layer inside the ...

6. Hide (skin) - Wikipedia

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   A hide or skin is an animal skin treated for human use. The word "hide" is related to the German word Haut, which means skin.The industry defines hides as "skins" of large animals e.g. cow, buffalo; while skins refer to "skins" of smaller animals: goat, sheep, deer, pig, fish, alligator, snake, etc. Common commercial hides include leather from cattle and other livestock animals, buckskin ...

7. Conservation and restoration of leather objects - Wikipedia

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   This was done by placing the skin in a pit on top of ground tanning material and covered by additional ground tanning material. This process would be repeated until the pit was nearly full. Tanning materials were dependent on the local landscape and were mostly composed of tree matter (oak, birch, willow, spruce, etc.).

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9. Buckskins - Wikipedia

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   Buckskins are clothing, usually consisting of a jacket and leggings, made from buckskin, a soft sueded leather from the hide of deer. Buckskins are often trimmed with a fringe – originally a functional detail, to allow the garment to shed rain, and to dry faster when wet because the fringe acted as a series of wicks to disperse the water ...