Everything you always wanted to know about Leather

[ddean]

Everything you always wanted to know about Leather

Really. Including processing / tanning.

Everything. Chemistry; down to the molecules.

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http://www.p2pays.org/ref/09/08854.htm

WHAT IS LEATHER?
by Dr. Tereza Varnali
Bogazici University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department of Chemistry
Bebek 80815 Istanbul - Turkey

"Primitive man covered himself with the skins of animals he killed.
They had three major defects:
1) they were damp,
2 )they would putrefy,"

Then it starts getting interesting.

 

[mamav]

That is interesting. Wish we would have had that the year we studied Native America and tanned a deer and elk hide the old fashioned way as guided by an interesting mountain man. Maybe we'll have to another study.

 

[Pappy]

I book marked this so I can come back to it and study it pretty close.

 

[Ferrous Wheel]

Now thats some explanation.

Keith

 

[Aardvark]

Everything you always wanted to know about Leather

and just maybe a paragraph-and-a-half more. Wow.

 

[BruiseLeee]

It could use a couple of color pics.

 

[PZ93C]

But would it work on that yellow lizard?

Brian