Its industries include tanning and leather-currying, and there is trade in grain.
Tanning leather is another industry of the province, some of the trees growing in the Catamarca forests being rich in tannin.
A visit to a hamlet of tanning Chamars induces doubt as to whence the appalling smells of the place proceed--from the hides or from the tanners.
As the decoction trickles slowly through the seams below, more is poured on from above, and from time to time the position of the hide is reversed in such a way that the tanning permeates each part in turn.
A glorious ruddy tint shone through thetanning of her fair cheeks.
Nan had paled under the pretty tanning of her rounded cheeks.
Finally, no process of tanning could give to the internal surface of the skin an aspect more satisfactory than that which offer other preparations deposited in my cabinet.
In fine, tanning is still a preparatory method for desiccation.
The following is thetanning liquor which I have proposed in the Cabinet of Natural History: Tan, or oak bark, 1 ℔.
He rode hard and fearlessly with the warriors, hunted bear and alligator, acquired uncommon facility in the making of sof-ka, the tribal stew, and helped in the tanning of pelts and the building of cypress canoes.
Basket and rope manufacture, tanning and cooperage are among its industries.
The coco-nut palm plantations yield copra of excellent quality, and the bark of the mangrove trees is exported for tanning purposes.
About this time Bristol began to export wool to the Baltic, and had developed a wine trade with the south of France, while soap-making and tanning were flourishing industries.
Linen-weaving and leather-tanning are the principal industries.
The wood of Alnus is very durable in water, and the astringent bark and strobiles are used in tanning leather and in medicine.
The bark is rich in tannin, and is used in tanning leather and occasionally in medicine.
Many of the species are important timber-trees; their bark is often rich in tannin and is used for tanning leather, and all produce wood valuable for fuel and in the manufacture of charcoal.
The flexible tough branches of several species are used in making baskets; the bark is rich in tannic acid and is used in tanning leather and yields salicin, a bitter principle valuable as a tonic.
The bark contains tannic acid and is used in tanning leather and occasionally as a tonic, and the fragrant balsam contained in the buds of some species is occasionally used in medicine.
The astringent inner bark affords the largest part of the material used in the northeastern states and Canada in tanning leather.
The bark of the trunk is sometimes used in tanning leather.
The bark is rich in tannic acid, and is used for tanning leather.
The bark is bitter and astringent, and has been used in tanning leather, and in medicine as an astringent and tonic.
It possesses astringent properties; the bark has been used in tanning leather, in dyeing, and as a febrifuge.
The bark is used in large quantities in tanning leather; from the inner bark the Indians of Alaska obtain one of their principal articles of vegetable food.
The bark is exceedingly rich in tannin and is largely used for tanning leather.
The bark, which is rich in tannin, is consumed in large quantities in tanning leather.
The bark contains a large amount of tannic acid and is sometimes used in tanning leather, and is astringent and tonic.
The ground bark on the surface was pretty dry, the layer being ten or fifteen inches thick, and the tanninginfusion had not yet risen through it.
We've been wantin' some leetle varmints fur tanning ennyhow," he said.
No shoemaker nor cordwainer shall tan their leather and no tanner shall make shoes, in order that tanning not be false or poorly done.
Leather working preservative techniques improved so that tanning prevented stretching or decaying.
Olelbis went along tanning the skin of the black cloud, and he walked around everywhere as he tanned.
After the tanning of the two cloud skins a man came and took his place above the sweat-house door, and sat there with his face to the east.
He was rubbing it in his hands, tanning it as he went.
He went around north, south, east, and west, tanning it in the same way that he had tanned the black skin.
Nor have I taken any notice of leather or the method of tanning it.
But so far as I know, there is no description of the process of tanning in any ancient author whatever.
This, for instance, is a type of a very common sort of contract in business: a leather manufacturer uses large quantities of tanningextract in his tannery.
Suppose it is necessary for his business that he should get tanning extract and get it regularly.
And over and above this fleeting joy, solid satisfaction entered into noble hearts, which felt that now the fruit of laborious years, and the cash of many a tanning season, should never depart from the family.
Randall as a child delighted in stopping around the tanning yard and watching the men salt the hide.
After tanning and curing his hides by placing them in water with oak bark for several days and then exposing them to the sun to dry, he would cut out the uppers and the soles after measuring the foot to be shod.
The tanning yard was not far from the house Doctor Miller.
See the observations on the importance of the tanning process in the preservation of leather, in the Note at the end of this volume.
These materials have first to be treated with mordants such as tannin, chrome or sumach, in order that they may take the dye, whereas leather is already prepared to receive it by the tanning process.
In the opinion of the Committee, most of this leather has been tanned with sumach or some closely allied tanning material.
Partly owing to its nature, and partly owing to the tanning process, leather is susceptible to the action of the dyes used to colour it in degrees varying according to their composition and penetration.
Tanning has throughout a hardening effect on the leather fibre, which, if pushed too far, ends in brittleness and loss of tenacity.
The tanningprocess of the best skins, whether with a glossy surface artificially obtained by rolling or with a dull surface, should be a very simple one.
But it is not the part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious; and tanning their skins for shoes is not the best use to which they can be put.
In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees, there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts.
In Europe its bark is valued for tanning next to oak bark, and the two are used together.
The hemlock bark has not been considered quite equal to the chestnut-oak (or rock oak) bark for any tanning purposes, but in Virginia the price is usually the same.
It is also used for tanning upper leather and calf-skins, though its light leather is not so good as that made from the oak barks.
And now since 1880, the chemists are pushing aside the vegetable processes, and substituting mineral processes, by which tanning is still further shortened and cheapened.
The inventions of the century consist in labour-saving machinery for these purposes, new tanning and dressing processes, and innumerable machines for making special articles of leather.
But whether discovered by chance, accident or experience, or invented from necessity, the art of tanningshould have rendered the name of the discoverer immortal.
It is the chief industrial town of its department, being a centre for the manufacture of boots and shoes; tanning and leather-dressing and the manufacture of sail-cloth and other fabrics are also important industries.
This effect may be much accelerated by using strong saturations of the tanning principle (which can be extracted from bark), instead of employing the bark itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tanning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: hiding; licking; thrashing; walloping; whaling
