This vintage book contains a complete guide to tanning leather, with information on tools and equipment, required materials, different techniques, benefits, common problems, and many other related aspects. Easy-to-digest and full of invaluable tips, this handbook is highly recommended for novice leatherworkers, and would make for a useful addition to collections of leatherworking literature. Contents include: Leather Crafting, Having Hides Tanned, Buying Leather by the Side, Home Tanning, Tanning Hides and Skins for Leather, Bark-Tanned Sole and Harness Leather, Chrome-Tanned Leather, Alum-Tanned Lace Leather, Tanning Fur Skins, Soaking and Fleshing, etc. Many vintage books like this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality addition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on leather crafting.\""36.78 | Home Tanning of Leather and Small Fur Skins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters