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Leather is a beautiful material. It is versatile, durable and reliable. It characteristically will not become fragile when in contact with water, will not decay when wet drying afterward, and does not become glutinous if exposed to strong heat.
Although we all know that leather comes from animal skins, we might not know the time consuming and technical process required to take it from being a decomposable skin to a preserved and usable material. This is a lengthy (and not for the faint-hearted if I may add) process known as tanning.
The primary function of the tanning process is to stop decomposition and increase durability by altering the protein structure of animal skins.
There are three main types of tanning. These are:
1. Vegetable-tanned leather
2. Chrome-tanned leather
3. Pit-tanned leather
What’s the difference? Here’s a brief overview:
1. Vegetable-tanned leather2. Chrome-tanned leather (wet blue)
2. Pit-tanned leather (wet blue)
The process
In each of the tanning processes, different chemicals, timings and finishing are used, but do still all follow a similar production structure. Let us look more closely at the most common type of tanning: chrome tanning.
Chrome tanning in a nut-shell:
We now have leather!
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