Environmentally Sound Leather Tanning: A Course on Small-scale Techniques and Management |
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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