id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 43377 Adcock, K. J. Leather: From the Raw Material to the Finished Product .txt text/plain 43907 2135 67 year (1914) for converting hides and skins into leather by treating The hides and skins of animals form the principal raw material of stout hides specially suitable for sole and belting leather; this good leather as skins properly tanned in the first instance. of raw hides and skins suitable for leather manufacture. main supply of raw material for leather, other kinds of hides and of iron which is inimical to both raw hides and leather in process If dressing hides and calf skins required for boot upper leather are of light skins, leather produced solely by means of artificial tannin finished for "raw hide leather" may be left in the pits quite a It is a good method of liming hides or skins dressed in the the sole leather was tanned in oak bark liquors, and, in the later and other heavy leathers, vegetable tanned light skins, such as calf, ./cache/43377.txt ./txt/43377.txt