06-08-2019, 10:30 AM
She has not seen any alum-tawed leather, or any text describing tawing, older than Julius Caesar, and she is not sure that Roman aluta was really tawed. Whereas we have whole museums full of (probably) oil-cured leather from Egypt and 4000 year old texts describing rubbing oil into skins and then dying them with madder and alum.
Bedouin women still tan skins with the tannins in pomegranite leaves, and Iranian villagers tan leather with the leaves of the Pistacia atlantica tree or taw it with alum, but there does not seem to be proof that ancient people did the same.
Bedouin women still tan skins with the tannins in pomegranite leaves, and Iranian villagers tan leather with the leaves of the Pistacia atlantica tree or taw it with alum, but there does not seem to be proof that ancient people did the same.
Nullis in verba
I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.
I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.
