Professionally dressing the skin at home does not work, since it is difficult to get all the ingredients, and there is no way to follow the technological process. But making small skins is not difficult.
Instruction manual
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The skins need to be cut, removing the heads and tails, removing fat and meat from the skin on the inside. For all solutions, an average of 3 liters of water is taken for each skin. The solution is required to soak the skin, it is prepared in a special container. Water must be brought to a temperature of about 30 degrees and make sure that the temperature does not fall during the entire dressing process. First of all, salt is poured into the water, per 1 liter of 50 grams, mix thoroughly. You must also add an antiseptic to the water: formalin or sodium silicofluoride, 1 gram per liter of water. The skins are put in this vat, stirring about once every 2-3 hours. They keep skins there from 12 to 20 hours. To keep the temperature, the container can be insulated.
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Having drenched skins, taken out of the solution, put the fur side down on a flat surface and thoroughly clean the remaining fat and muscle films with a knife or a special scraper. When cleaning the skin, you need to move from the rump towards the head, otherwise there is a high probability of tearing the skin. After that, the skins are thoroughly washed in warm water with the addition of any detergent, washed in a large amount of running water.
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After this, another solution is prepared by adding 50 g of salt per liter, 7 g / l of acetic acid (or food vinegar 800 ml / l). The skins are put in this solution and mixed thoroughly for an hour. After that, the skins of the females are left for a period of 24 hours, for 35 hours - the skins of males, periodically thoroughly mixing about once per hour. After the end of the soaking time, the solution is drained from the container, and the skins are left to be aged in it for a day. After this, the skins are removed and squeezed, starting to prepare for tanning.
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For tanning, water is heated to 35 degrees, adding salts of 50 g / l. The skins are left in solution for an hour. After this, dry chrome tanning agent is added at a rate of 9 g / l. To add it is divided into two parts and dissolved in three parts of hot water. After adding the first portion to the skins, mix intensively for 5 minutes, then periodically for an hour. After an hour passes, add the second part and interfere with another hour. The skins in this solution remain for 12 hours. The container must be insulated so that the temperature of the solution does not drop below 30 degrees.
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After 12 hours of soaking, soda is taken in an amount of 3-4 g / l of solution. It is dissolved in 10 parts of hot water and divided into three equal portions. The first is poured into the solution, mixed thoroughly and left for 2 hours, then the second is poured and also thoroughly mixed, and after another 2 hours the third is added and wait another 2 hours. Then the solution is drained, and the skins again remain in the container for a day. After that, each skin is individually washed with hot water and dried without wire drying on a wire.
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When the skins are completely dry, they are moistened with a solution in which 30 g of salt and 1 g / l of urotropine, or dry fuel, are taken per liter of hot water. Moistened skins are covered with oilcloth and left for a day in this position, with the fur down. They are periodically checked, moistening with the same solution dry places too quickly. A day later, the skins are kneaded, stretched in different directions, fatten. The fatliquoring process occurs with the help of special pastes for fur skins and leather, which are rubbed into the skin with foam rubber. After complete drying, the skins are ground with a pumice, sandpaper or grinding wheel.
