WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE PURCHASING OUR LEATHERS?
The Stages of Transformation
- Liming (Removing Hair)
- Splitting
- Tanning (Preservation using Chromium Salts)
- Re-Tanning – dyeing of crusts for the intended base color
- Correction (buffing out defects, adding stucco, printing a grain)
- Finishing
- Pigmenting (opaque paint as on your car)
- Aniline Finishes (dye as in coloring fabric)
- Addition of oils and/or waxes for
- Pull Up and double tone effects
- Buffing for Nubuck effects
- Hand Antiquing
- Milling – Tumbling in rotating drums for softness

Liming

Wet-Blues

Splitting

Retanning

Wet-Blues

Application of Pigment

Applying Oils & Waxes

Buffing Stucco from the Hide
