Environmentally Sound Leather Tanning: A Course on Small-scale Techniques and Management |
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... lime liquors . The preparation of all three is the same . Our lime liquor will contain 50 litres of water and 2 kilogramme slaked lime . In a series of lime liquors you will usually have an old , a mellow and a fresh lime liquor . To ...
... lime liquors . The preparation of all three is the same . Our lime liquor will contain 50 litres of water and 2 kilogramme slaked lime . In a series of lime liquors you will usually have an old , a mellow and a fresh lime liquor . To ...
Page 48
... lime liquor we will flesh them for a second time . Liming After being soaked and fleshed the skins enter the old lime solution . In this solution they stay for two days . Twice a day haul the skins , stir the liquor and put the skins ...
... lime liquor we will flesh them for a second time . Liming After being soaked and fleshed the skins enter the old lime solution . In this solution they stay for two days . Twice a day haul the skins , stir the liquor and put the skins ...
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... lime liquor , that mr . Jackson saved from the last time he tanned leather . After three days he tries to unhair the ... old lime ' basin . The kept hair is mixed with the fresh lime liquor and is put away to be stored until the next ...
... lime liquor , that mr . Jackson saved from the last time he tanned leather . After three days he tries to unhair the ... old lime ' basin . The kept hair is mixed with the fresh lime liquor and is put away to be stored until the next ...
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50 gramme alkaline animal bark or pods basin bating Baumé beam house calculate caustic soda cementing substance clean water colour connective tissue corium costs per skin deliming dermis dissolved divided dm² dried enter new skins epidermis fat liquor fibres five skins flaying flesh side fresh lime liquor grain side group of skins hair hypodermis Indirect costs institute with tanning Jackson kg grounded bark kilogramme lay-away layer lemon litres of water mellow method microbes millimetres number of months old lime liquor papaya phenolphthalein piece of leather price per dm2 Price per skin put the skins refer to figure retanning scudding skins stay slaked lime smear soaking soap soda stake stays hard stir the liquor supple tank tannery tannin tanning activity tanning experience tanning liquor tanning material tanning process third quality trees unhairing vegetable tanning vinegar washing waste water Zambia