It is a good plan, however, to leave them at rest in the drum for a day, after which they are piled up overnight to allow further combination of the tawing materials with the fibres of the pelts.
The tawingmixture is composed of alum, salt, egg-yolk, and wheaten flour.
Some dressers prefer to give the second tawing mixture before dyeing, but the advantage of dressing the leather after dyeing is that the colour is securely fixed.
In preparing the tawing paste, the flour should be mixed with tepid water; the egg yolk should also be diluted with tepid water slightly, and strained if necessary, and then added to the flour.
Calf kid" is a once popular but now obsolete upper leather made bytawing calfskins.
This liquor, which contains much of the tawing material, is run off and replaced by the dye solution, e.
After being well drenched and washed the goods are ready for the tawing process.
On the continent of Europe it is usual for the goods to be thrown into a tub with the tawing paste and trodden with the bare feet, although this old-fashioned method is gradually being driven out, and the drum or tumbler is being used.
The tawing paste consists of a mixture of alum, salt, flour, egg yolk and water; the quantities of each constituent diverge widely, every dresser having his own recipe.
The goods are prepared for tawing in a manner similar to the preparation of tanned leathers, arsenical limes being used to ensure a fine grain.
Of the tawing or dressing of skins for gloves, and white sheep leather.
Muriate of soda, however, may be employed along with alum, as is done in the tawing of sheepskins.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tawing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
