[Northkeep] deer hide tanning

[Horn, Trisha D.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Marc Carlson [SMTP:marccarlson20 at hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Monday, November 17, 2003 12:20
> To:	northkeep at ansteorra.org
> Subject:	Re: [Northkeep] deer hide tanning
> 
> >From: "Montega Blackdragon" <montega_blackdragon at hotmail.com>
> >I posted this a long time ago and kept it in case it was needed again...
> 
> And I'm sure it will come up again :)
> 
> Just to be really anal and pedantic, what you are describing is "tawing"
> (or 
> "curing"), not "tanning".  "Tanning" is the result of a chemical change in
> 
> the hide into leather.  Tawing -is- however a perfectly authentic medieval
> 
> way of handling hide (in fact I really need some tawed goatskin if I can 
> ever find any).
> 
> By the same token, of course, most "chrome tanned leathers" are neither 
> tanned nor leather which is what happens when the common language grows
> away 
> from the techical jargon.
> 
> BTW, call it what you want - I just like pointing this stuff out :)
> 
> Marc/Diarmaid
> 
	So this will set the hair and the hide won't smell, but be pliable
and useable?






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