A Practical Handbook of Tanning and Currying and Chrome Leather Dressing

Contents: Introduction. 1. Chemical theory of the tanning process. 2. The skin. 3. Hides and skins. 4. Tannin or tannic acid. 5. Gallic acid. 6. Gallic fermentation. 7. Tanning materials. 8. Estimation of tannin. 9. Preliminary operations. 10. Depilation or unhairing skins and hides. 11. Raising or swelling. 12. Tanning butts for sole leather. 13. Tanning processes. 14. Tanning processes (continued). 15. Tanning by pressure. 16. Quick tanning. 17. Harness leather tanning. 18. American tanning. 19. Hemlock tanning. 20. Tanning by electricity. 21. Chemical tanning. 22. Miscellaneous processes. 23. On the cost of American tanning. 24. Manufacture of light leathers. 25. Dyeing leather. 26. Manufacture of white leather. 27. Chrome leather manufacture. 28. Box calf manufacture. 29. Chamois, oil oil-leather manufacture. 30. Currying. 31. Machinery employed in leather manufacture. 32. Embossing leather. 33. Fellmongering. 34. Parchment, vellum and Shagreen. 35. Gut-dressing. 36. Glue-boiling. 37. Utilization of tanners waste.
 
The book serves as a handy guide to its readers. The book covers various processes in the order of theirs occurrence, with bare minimum repetition. The book deals with the subject from the practical rather than a theoretical standpoints, and it is hoped that by following the instructions given in the book a tanner will be in a position to improve the effectiveness of his processes. The book covers a number of unusual processes as well as description of some of the more recent products which have been introduced as a substitute for the ordinary materials employed in the leather manufacture.