MAKING “GREENHIDE”
Removing Hair From Skin USE OF UNSLAKED LIME Soak the hide in fresh water —if it is a dried one —to which a few handfuls of washing soda have been added, until the hide is quite limp and soft as a fresh hide. Remove all scraps of fat, flesh, etc., and rinse once or twice. Now put the limp hide in a solution of unslaked Hme -and water, in the proportion of 2oz. to 4oz. of lime to the gallon. Soak for 24 hours; the hair should then come out. If not, make up ft frosh liquid and soak again, when the hair will come away from the skin readily by scraping with a blunt instrument." Give the skin two or three soakings and rinsings to free it from any lime, and then spread out to dry in the shade.
Before the skin is quite dry, rub in a little mutton fat or tallow and work the skin well. It will then be soft and pliable when dry; this will make what is called “ greenhide. ” Omit the fat or tallow if the skin is to be tanned.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 94, 4 April 1934, Page 11
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