tanning skins at home

HOMESTEAD farming is very popular in the countryside as a great opportunity to restock food for the whole family. Agricultural animals often contain fans and the city - mostly rabbits or poultry, but it is possible and on the balconies, not only on the plot.

However, in addition to a diet of rabbit meat or a juicy lamb products household livestock are also the skins of domestic animals, which can become an additional source of income, but you can of them and sew any items wardrobes - hats, or even coats, for example. But in order to be able to do something, we need currying in the home or in the workshop.  Without this, the skins turn hard and brittle.

A Currying the animal need to engage in specialized workshops, because it has all the necessary equipment for tanning hides. In addition, this work is hard, very time consuming and difficult. But it is possible and dressing the skins at home, if you follow certain rules. Before starting work, the skin must be cleaned of bits of meat and fat, and then cooling. When the skin is cooled on its inner side to pour salt in order to skin is not beginning to decompose. So begins the dressing of hides in the home, and this rule applies for hide of any animal.

The Skin should lie on a smooth, flat surface. Salt needs to absorb moisture, so the skin became dry and crunchy. But this process can take place a couple of days, or even weeks. When you start to work the candle for a couple of hours before, place the cloth in clean water, in order that the skin became elastic. After you need to boil twelve liters of water, and pour it over the bran.

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When the flakes are steamed, strain them through a sieve to obtain the infusion of brown. Get fifteen liters of water, which should boil. Then pour 15-17 cups of salt into the tank, fill with boiling water and stir with a wooden stick until dissolved salt. Pour brown infusion in salt water and thoroughly mix. When the liquid becomes warm, it is necessary to pour acid for car batteries. Yes, without the acid tanning of animal skins is not complete.  acid have to be very careful to read the instructions on the label, wear rubber gloves and a long sleeve shirt. Pouring acid, stir the resulting liquid. Put the cloth in the liquid for 40-50 minutes.

Meanwhile, fill a second Chan warm water for washing skin. Put back the skin and rinse until then, until you get rid of the remnants of salt on it. If the water became dirty, it needs to change. After you add the baking soda to remove the acid from the skins, so that in the future, the skin did not cause irritation in persons with sensitive skin.

When I washed the hide, it should be hung on a sturdy horizontal bar to the water glass. After taking 30 grams of hoof oil, impregnate the sponge and apply to skin in a thin layer. Then the skin is pulled on a wooden deck so that she wasn't too stretched and placed the deck in the shade to dry. After tanning the skins of a VAT of acidic solution does not pour, as it first need to add a couple of packs of soda to neutralise the acid - you need to care about protecting the environment. After ventilate the area.

Dry skins need to check every day. When it becomes dry, soft and elastic, it is necessary to turn the fur down and go over it with a wire brush, after which it will become soft and bright. In the end you need to hang the skin for a few days for complete drying. As you can see, currying at home - the process is not only time consuming but also lengthy.