Vegetable Tanning

VEGETABLE TANNING
  • This is the traditional process and takes a lot of time.
  • It involves immersion of hides and skins in the infusion made from the extracts of tanning bearing plants and barks.
  • Some tanning producing plants are:
      • Avarum (Cassis auriculata)
      • Babul (Acacia Arabia)
      • Myrabalan (Terminalia chebula)
      • Konnan (Cassia fistula)

Vegetable tanning
Last modified: Friday, 17 September 2010, 5:32 AM