[Sca-cooks] 13th Century Icelandic Fish Skin Tanning Techniques

[johnna holloway]

There really is a way to search at least
the terms Icelandic "Fish Skin Tanning"
and get at least one article...
It's at:
[PDF] www.rfisk.is/utgafa/pdf/Report_for_1993_and_1994.pdf
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as Text
... on board iced-fish vessels. (Icelandic Research Council
 and Baader Ísland ... Fisheries)
Setting up a special fish-skin tanning process in the Mince ...
So there----

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
(who's trying to avoid housework this morning by researching
stuff on the internet and reading e-mail...It's Friday...it's
been snowing...it's still October... grumble...grumble..)



Peter Ryan wrote:> snipped----
> Evil Drakey! .... When pressed as to what field of endeavour I was to
> embark upon I replied, "13th century Icelandic fish skin tanning". problem
> was that I knew, deep down in the recesses of my failing memory, that fish
> skins could be tanned, and seemed to recall it being mentioned i some text
> or other. So, I guess it can't hurt to try it (unless the neighbours
> complain about the odours of said process taking place scant metres away
> from their back yards).
> I have been known to stir the ocassional pot.
> To avoid using cliches like the plague, small world!>
> Gwynfor Lwyd OP, OLM, AA, PsC, OST etc
> Canton of Krae Glas, Barony of Stormhold,
> Principality of Lochac, West Kingdom