Dressing of hides in the home

Household farming is very popular in rural areas as an excellent opportunity to replenish food supplies for the whole family. It is not uncommon for farm animals to be kept by amateurs in the city - mostly rabbits or poultry, and their content is possible on the balconies, and not just on the site.

However, in addition to the dietary meat of rabbits or succulent mutton, homemade animal skins are also products of personal livestock, which can become an additional source of income, and it is possible to sew any items of wardrobe - hats or even fur coats, for example. But in order to be able to do something, you need to make skins at home or in the workshop. Without this, the skins are hard and brittle.

The dressing of the animal's skin should be done in specialized workshops, because exactly there is all necessary equipment for the manufacture of skins. In addition, this work is hard, very laborious and complex. But it is possible to make hides at home, if you follow certain rules. Before the work begins, the skin must be completely cleaned of meat and fat, and then cooled. When the skin has cooled, it is necessary to pour food salt on its inner side so that the skin does not start to decompose. So begins the dressing of skins at home, and this rule is true for the skins of any animal.

Skin should lie on a flat, flat surface. Salt should absorb moisture, so that the skin becomes dry and crunchy. But this process can take a couple of days, or even weeks. When you start the work itself, a couple of hours before, put the skin in clean water, in order for the skin to become elastic. After you need to boil twelve liters of water and pour into the bran.

When the flakes break up, they must be filtered through a sieve to get a brownish tincture. You will get fifteen liters of water, which should also be boiled. Then we pour 15-17 glasses of salt into a vat, fill it with boiling water and stir with a wooden stick until the salt dissolves. Pour the brown infusion into the salt water and carefully interfere. When the liquid becomes warm, it needs to be poured with acid for car batteries. Yes, yes, without acid the dressing of animal skins is not complete. With acid, you must be extremely careful, read the instructions on the label, wear rubber gloves and a shirt with a long sleeve. After pouring acid, stir the resulting liquid. We put the skin in this liquid for 40-50 minutes.

In the meantime, fill the second vat with warm water, to wash the skins. We put the skin and rinse there until we get rid of the remains of salt on it. If the water has become dirty, it needs to be changed. After adding baking soda to remove acid from the skin, in order to further the skin does not cause irritation in a person with sensitive skin.

When the skin is washed, it should be hung on a strong crossbar, so that the glass water. After we take 30 grams of hoof oil, we impregnate the sponge and apply it to the skin with a thin layer. Then we sand the skin on the wooden flooring so that it is not too tight and we transfer the flooring to the shade to dry. After dressing the skin, the vat with the acid solution should not be poured out, since you must first add a couple of packs of soda to neutralize the acid - you need to take care of maintaining a favorable ecological situation. After that, ventilate the room.

Skin drying should be checked every day. When it becomes dry, soft and supple, it needs to be turned upside down and walked along it with a metal brush, after which it will become soft and light. In the end, you need to hang the skin for a few days to completely dry. As you can see, dressing skins at home is not only a laborious process, but also a long process.