TANNING BY ELECTRICITY.
A writer in a French paper states that all the strayed dogs taken up by the French police and left unclaimed are, after being killed, handed over to an enterprising manufacturer by whom the skins are tanned by electricity. Instead of taking seven or eight months to transform the skin into leather, as is the case by the ordinary system, electricity does the work in three or four days. The leather so tanned, moreover, it is asserted, is much better than that manufactured by the ordinary process, and when made up into ladies’ boots and shoes is much admired for its soft and delicate qualities.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 48, 26 November 1892, Page 1164
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108TANNING BY ELECTRICITY. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 48, 26 November 1892, Page 1164
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