After staking, the goods are “soft-boarded,” and a thin coat of a weak linseed mucilage is applied to the skins, which are afterwards dried out and seasoned with the following mixture:—
“Soak 10 to 15 oz. of dry egg albumen for four hours in 1 gallon of cold water, with occasional stirring, strain off any insoluble matter and add 1 gallon of milk. A little carbolic acid (phenol) may be added to the above if it is desired to keep the finish for more than two or three days—1 oz. of phenol previously dissolved in a little water, added to each gallon of the finish, being a suitable amount.” A little dye should be added to the mixture.
After seasoning, the skins are dried out in the stove, glazed twice round and re-seasoned with the above mixture diluted with its own volume of water. The goods are dried out and again glazed, perched lightly, and finally boarded up from neck to tail in order to raise the popular straight-grain. Should the glaze be too bright the albumen solution may be reduced to half-strength.
When the goods have been glazed they are rubbed over on the grain side with a flannel cloth which is slightly damp with linseed oil, trimmed up, and are ready for sale.
Dyes Suitable for Dyeing Chrome-Tanned Leather.
Browns.
- Resorcin brown. (Ber.)
- Chocolate. (Uer.)
- Fast brown. (BY.)
- Fast brown. (Ber.)
- New golden brown A.1. (C.)
- Fast brown. (B.A.S.F.)
- Acid brown Y. (S.C. Ind.)
- Acid brown B. (S.C. Ind.)
- Golden brown. (Leitch.)
- Bronze acid brown. (By.)
- Light nut brown. (Uer.)
- Resorcin brown. (W. Bros.)
- Acid brown 5210. (W. Bros.)
- New acid brown. (B.S. Spl.)
- Light nut brown. (R.)
- Brown 2Y. (R.)
- Azo-phosphine. (Uer.)
- Golden brown Y. (W. Bros.)
Yellowish Browns and Yellows.
- Citronine. (Leon.)
- Azo-flavine RS. (B.A.S.F.)
- Cuba yellow 2072. (S.C. Ind.)
- Phosphine substitute. (B.S. Spl.)
- Azo-yellow conc. (M.L.B.)
- Azo-flavine. (R.)
- Golden orange R. (Leitch.)
- Circumein ext. (Ber.)
- Indian yellow G. (By.)
- Turmeric substitute (W. Bros.).
- Azo-yellow R. (M.L.B.).
- Chrysophenin G. (Leon.)
- Indian yellow T. (C.)
- Quinoline yellow. (Ber.)
- Cuba yellow. (C.) and (W. Bros.)
- Indian yellow. G. (C.)
- Chrysoine ext. (W. Bros.)
- Azo-flavine. (B.S. Spl.)
- Turmeric yellow B. (Leitch.)
- Azo-yellow FY. (R.H. & S.)
- Orange 4. (R.H. & S.)
- Naphtol yellow S. (B.A.S.F.)
- Turmeric yellow Y. (Leitch.)
- Azo-flavine 7032. (S.C. Ind.)
- Turmeric yellow. (G.)
- Solid yellow Y. (Leon.)
- Solid yellow B. (Leon.)
- Milling brown G. (Leon.)
- Napthamine yellow 3 G. (K.)
- Orange GG. (C.)
- Resorcin yellow. (Ber.)