vegetable tanning

noun

1. the act or process of tanning hide by the infusion of plant extract.

Example Sentences

It is tanned by natives according to some method of vegetable tanning not completely known at this time.

From Project Gutenberg

The main application of Neradol D is in admixture with vegetable tanning materials; especially in the early stages of tannage is this substance of value, since by its use not only a light coloured leather surface is obtained, but its presence prevents a subsequent dead tannage when strong vegetable tan liquors are applied, and it also imparts strength to the grain layer.

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These figures correspond closely to those obtained by the analysis of leathers tanned with vegetable tanning materials, and this proves the similarity between the Neradol D tannage and a vegetable tannage in their chemical aspects.

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Where the vegetable tanning materials have already been converted into extracts, it is essential to establish the identity of the original material used by the qualitative reactions of the extract in addition to the quantitative estimation of actual tannin contents.

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Neradol D liquor for about four days; the resultant leather being nearly white and otherwise very similar to a leather tanned with vegetable tanning materials.

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