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Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather. A tannery is the place where the skins are processed. Historically, vegetable based tanning used tannin, an acidic chemical compound derived from the bark of certain trees, in the production of leather. An alternative method, developed in the ...
Overshot waterwheel at Combe House Hotel in Holford, Somerset, England. Bark mill - 1892 illustration in Popular Science Monthly Volume 41. Bark mills, also known as Catskill's mills, are water, steam, horse, ox or wind-powered edge mills [1] used to process the bark, roots, and branches of various tree species into a fine powder known as tanbark, used for tanning leather.
The words "tannin", "tanning", "tan," and "tawny" are derived from the Medieval Latin tannare, "to convert into leather." Bark mills are horse- or oxen-driven or water-powered edge mills [ 2 ] and were used in earlier times to shred the tanbark to derive tannins for the leather industry.
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Tanning the leather. This was a bark tanning process, similar to other vegetable-tanned leather. Saturating the tanned hide with birch oil. This is the most distinctive part of the process, giving Russia leather its water resistance and distinctive smell. Dyeing the leather either red or black.
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