The hide is prepared for tanning by reducing the swollen and rigid fibres. The bottom layer (split) is then used for suede or can have a pigment applied to it and becomes a finished split (commonly used on the backs & sides of upholstery).
The top layer is used in most upholstery as it contains the grain pattern or can be corrected and have an embossed pattern applied to it. They are passed through a machine that removes unwanted flesh, connective tissue and fat. This process also moisturises the hide.Īgain the hides are soaked in alkaline conditions, this is to loosen the hair (unhair) and to swell the collagen fibre and break down non structural proteins that would harden the final leather if not removed. The hides are soaked in water kept at 20 degrees Celsius to avoid shrinkage and detergents can be added with an alkaline chemical that aids the uptake of water. This process is done to remove dirt and blood from the surface of leather. The beamhouse area of a tannery is for the removal of unwanted materials from the hide, such as hair, non-structural proteins and fleshy tissue. These different processes can be broken down into four sections:
Pressure tanning hides skin#
The actual process of making a hide or skin into leather is not just one simple task but a number of processes. If the leather has a surface coating, this surface layer, however applied, must not be thicker than 0.15mm”
Leather is also made from a hide or skin which has been split into layers or segmented, either before or after tanning, but if the tanned hide or skin is disintegrated mechanically without combination of a binding agent, is made into sheets or other forms, such sheets or forms are not leather. The hair or wool may, or may not, have been removed. “A general term for hide or skin with its original fibrous structure more or less intact, tanned to be imputrescible. A normal Moose hide will twist and destroy the frame of a Hand Drum when it dries.British Standard BS 2780 Definition of Leather: These are specialty Drums and need a thin Moose hide. The same goes with our Moose sweat lodge Hand Drums (Moose hide is used for sweat lodge Drums because it is much more resistant to the humidity of the sweat lodge). To achieve this, we sort through our gathered Moose hides for the thickest ones to use on our Powwow Drums. Good Powwow Drums require very thick hides to get the best sound. Because we are working with our own recuperated hides, we have a greater control over the quality of our product. Generally, we get half of the hides processed into raw hide for our Drums and the other half tanned into leather for our creations and for sale to our customers. About 6 weeks later, we gather the fruits of our labours. We then pile them on wooden pallets and, at the end of the season, we rent the biggest truck we can find and take them to the tannery. We then carefully salt the hides to prevent rotting before the tanning process. These animals were not wasted in any form. We live in a region of Quebec where people have been hunting for centuries, and still hunt the local wild animals to feed their families. Moose Gold, Black & Dark Cork (5 1/2 oz) great for drum bags, purses, moccasin soles, boots.ĭuring the 2011 hunting season, we gathered about 1500 Deer and 800 Moose hides which would have been thrown out. Moose Gold, Brown & Dark Cork (3 1/2 oz) great for moccasins, purses We have wild Deer leather, Deer raw hide, Moose leather and new for 2012 Moose raw hide for powwow drums.!!!ĭeer Gold, Brown, Tan and White (2 1/2 oz) great for regalia, pouches, beading, clothing!! We found a local Canadian tannery which was willing to tan them for us, and we offer them to you through our creations. There is also increasing pressure on North American tanneries because of our strict environmental protection policies, while there are virtually none in off-shore tanneries. Because the supply is limited to the hunting season, tanneries cannot generally afford to take on the processing. Each year throughout North America thousands of wild animal skins are thrown out because there is little commercial use for wild hides.
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