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62 DRESSING AND TANNING SKINS AND FURS.
be damp and warm, salt the flesh side slightly with fine salt.
Without the Wool or Hair.—Sheep-skin, deer-skin, dog-bkin,
calf-skin, &c., for gloves, &c., are also tawed, but the hair must
be taken off. The skins are first soaked in warm water, scraped
on the flesh side to get off fat, and hung in a warm room until
they begin to give a slight smell of hartshorn. The wool or fur
then comes off readily. The hair side should now be thoroughly scraped against the hair. The skin is next soaked two or three
weeks in weak lime water, changing the water two or three times.
Then they are brought out again, scraped smooth and trimmed.
Then rinsed in clean water, then soaked in wheat bran and water
, for two or three weeks. After this they are well stirred around
in a pickle of alum, salt and water. Then they are thrown again
into the bran and water for two or three days. Then stretched
and dried somewhat in a warm room. After this they are soaked
in warm water and then worked or trodden on in a trough or
pail filled with yolk of eggs, salt, alum, flour and water, beaten
to a froth. They are finally stretched and dried in an airy room,
and last of all smoothed with a warm smoothing iron. This
makes the beautiful leather we see in gloves, military trimmings,
&c. The proportions for the egg paste are as follows .* 3^ pounds
salt, 8 pounds alum, 21 pounds wheat flour and yolks of nine
dozen eggs. Make a paste with water, dissolving first the alum
and salt. A little of this paste is used as wanted with a great
deal of water.
Chamois skin and deer skins not wanted for gloves, are similarly treated up to the point of treating with egg paste. Instead
of using^this process tfhey are oiled on the hair side with very
clean animal oil, rolled into balls and thrown into the trough of a
fulling mill, well beaten two or three hours, aired, re-oiled, beaten
again and the process repeated a thir-i time. They are then put
into a warm room until they begin to give out a decided smell,
then scoured in weak lye to take out superfluous grease. Here
the intention is merely to get a thick felt-like skin of good color,
a nicely grained surface is not required as in gloves. The skins
are finally rinsed, wrung ont, stretched and dried, and when
nearly dry slightly rub with' a smooth, hard round stick.
These are the fine processes. A dried skin o^led so as to become smooth and pliable will retain the hair or w<?al a consider-
| Title | The boys' own book of outdoor sports |
| Creator | John, Uncle |
| Publisher | Hurst & company |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | [1887?] |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000063 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 62 DRESSING AND TANNING SKINS AND FURS. be damp and warm, salt the flesh side slightly with fine salt. Without the Wool or Hair.—Sheep-skin, deer-skin, dog-bkin, calf-skin, &c., for gloves, &c., are also tawed, but the hair must be taken off. The skins are first soaked in warm water, scraped on the flesh side to get off fat, and hung in a warm room until they begin to give a slight smell of hartshorn. The wool or fur then comes off readily. The hair side should now be thoroughly scraped against the hair. The skin is next soaked two or three weeks in weak lime water, changing the water two or three times. Then they are brought out again, scraped smooth and trimmed. Then rinsed in clean water, then soaked in wheat bran and water , for two or three weeks. After this they are well stirred around in a pickle of alum, salt and water. Then they are thrown again into the bran and water for two or three days. Then stretched and dried somewhat in a warm room. After this they are soaked in warm water and then worked or trodden on in a trough or pail filled with yolk of eggs, salt, alum, flour and water, beaten to a froth. They are finally stretched and dried in an airy room, and last of all smoothed with a warm smoothing iron. This makes the beautiful leather we see in gloves, military trimmings, &c. The proportions for the egg paste are as follows .* 3^ pounds salt, 8 pounds alum, 21 pounds wheat flour and yolks of nine dozen eggs. Make a paste with water, dissolving first the alum and salt. A little of this paste is used as wanted with a great deal of water. Chamois skin and deer skins not wanted for gloves, are similarly treated up to the point of treating with egg paste. Instead of using^this process tfhey are oiled on the hair side with very clean animal oil, rolled into balls and thrown into the trough of a fulling mill, well beaten two or three hours, aired, re-oiled, beaten again and the process repeated a thir-i time. They are then put into a warm room until they begin to give out a decided smell, then scoured in weak lye to take out superfluous grease. Here the intention is merely to get a thick felt-like skin of good color, a nicely grained surface is not required as in gloves. The skins are finally rinsed, wrung ont, stretched and dried, and when nearly dry slightly rub with' a smooth, hard round stick. These are the fine processes. A dried skin o^led so as to become smooth and pliable will retain the hair or w |
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