Home Tanning and Leather Making Guide - Softcover

Farnham, Albert B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0936622113 ISBN 13: 9780936622118

Publisher: Fur Fish Game, 1959

Synopsis

2011 Reprint of 1922 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Arthur Robert Harding (July 1871 - 1930), better known as A. R. Harding, was an American outdoorsman and founder of several hunting and trapping magazines. He was also publisher, editor and author of many popular outdoor how-to books of the early 1900s. His company was known as the A. R. Harding Publishing Company of Columbus, Ohio and St. Louis, Missouri. This title is a comprehensive guide on the subject and provides valuable information for those who wish to tan and make leather from cattle, horse, calf, sheep, goat, deer and other hides and skins. It also explains how to skin, handle, classify and market the hides. Chapters on skinning, curing, storing, equipment, tools, materials, terms, unhairing, tanning, finishing, alum process, chrome process, acid process, bark process, buckskin, robe skins, salting and curing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fur Fish Game
• Publication date: 1959
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0936622113
• ISBN 13: 9780936622118
• Binding: Paperback