Re: MtMan-List: Leather types

[Dean Rudy <drudy@xmission.com>]

At 09:36 AM 6/24/97 -0600, you wrote:
>> Date:          Fri, 06 Jun 1997 14:08:18 -0600 (MDT)
>> From:          Rick Williams <ERWillia@admrec.byu.edu>
>> Subject:       MtMan-List: Leather types
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>> Mountaineers!
>>  
>Was this posting too long?  I can't believe someone didn't jump in 
>with both feet.  I'll shorten it but I really do want some feedback.
>Thanks  Rick    
>> A new topic.  I have been trying todetermine if certain articles of 
>clothing were made from leather alum, vegetable or oil tanned.  
>Here is my thought process so far.  I present this to you 
>in the hopes that I might  authenticate the 
>use of leather other than brain-tan.  
> 


This is a topic I'd like to learn more about, too.  One factoid I can
contribute is that in the account books of Ft Hall, the initial stock of
goods when Wyeth founded the fort in 1834 included alum.  Did alum serve
any other purpose at the time, or is it reasonable to assume it was
intended for tanning?  Tanning was done at the Fort by some method, as the
tanned skins were sold.


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