rocco, Parchment,
Furs and Artificial Leather# -- Enamelled Leather: Varnish Manufacture;
Application of the Enamel; Enamelling in Colour -- Hungary Leather:
Preliminary; Wet Work or Preparation; Aluming; Dressing or Loft Work;
Tallowing; Hungary Leather from Various Hides -- Tawing: Preparatory
Operations; Dressing; Dyeing Tawed Skins; Rugs -- Chamoy Leather --
Morocco: Preliminary Operations; Morocco Tanning: Mordants used in
Morocco Manufacture; Natural Colours used in Morocco Dyeing;
Artificial Colours; Different Methods of Dyeing; Dyeing with Natural
Colours; Dyeing with Aniline Colours; Dyeing with Metallic Salts;
Leather Printing; Finishing Morocco; Shagreen; Bronzed Leather --
Gilding and Silvering: Gilding; Silvering; Nickel and Cobalt --
Parchment -- Furs and Furriery: Preliminary Remarks; Indigenous Furs;
Foreign Furs from Hot Countries; Foreign Furs from Cold Countries;
Furs from Birds' Skins; Preparation of Furs; Dressing; Colouring;
Preparation of Birds' Skins; Preservation of Furs -- Artificial
Leather: Leather made from Scraps; Compressed Leather; American Cloth;
Papier Mache; Linoleum; Artificial Leather.
Part V., #Leather Testing and the Theory of Tanning# -- Testing and
Analysis of Leather: Physical Testing of Tanned Leather; Chemical
Analysis -- The Theory of Tanning and the other Operations of the
Leather and Skin Industry: Theory of Soaking; Theory of Unhairing;
Theory of Swelling; Theory of Handling; Theory of Tanning; Theory of
the Action of Tannin on the Skin; Theory of Hungary Leather Making;
Theory of Tawing; Theory of Chamoy Leather Making; Theory of Mineral
Tanning.
Part VI., #Uses of Leather# -- Machine Belts: Manufacture of Belting;
Leather Chain Belts; Various Belts; Use of Belts -- Boot and
Shoe-making: Boots and Shoes; Laces -- Saddlery: Composition of a
Saddle; Construction of a Saddle -- Harness: The Pack Saddle; Harness
-- Military Equipment -- Glove Making -- Carriage Building --
Mechanical Uses.
Appendix, #The World's Commerce in Leather# -- Europe; America; Asia;
Africa; Australasia -- Index.
#THE LEATHER WORKER'S MANUAL.# Being a Compendium of Practical Recipes
and Working Formulae for Curriers, Bootmakers, Leather Dressers,
Blacking Manufacturers, Saddlers, Fancy Leather Workers. By H. C.
STANDAGE. Demy 8vo. 165 pp. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. 10d.
home; 8s. abroad.)
#Contents.#
Blackings, Polishes, Glosses, Dressings, Renovators, etc., for Boot
and Shoe
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