12-08-2011, 01:13 AM
Quote:But it is far easier to make vegetable tanned leather.
Now John, you know that the ancients did everything in the most difficult and arcane manner, specifically to foil future generations :-)
What "vegetable" are you using to tan the leather. I assume, perhaps wrongly, that it is the tannins in the product that are darkening the leather. I came across a reference for Sumac being used in conjunction with alum treated leather in Cordova for cordovan leather. Do you have any experience with this, perhaps the result is not as dark.
Paul M. Bardunias
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