Rabbit fur is a very light, beautiful and warm material. Basically, skins are used to sew women's and children's hats, children's fur clothes.
It is necessary
- - the spoon
- - water
- - salt
- - vinegar
- - willow, wild rosemary or oak bark
- - laundry soap
- - rendered pork fat
- - ammonia
- - chalk or plaster
- - sandpaper
- - sawdust
- - hairbrush
Instructions
Step 1
Soak the skins at 35-40 degrees. It is enough to keep fresh skins in water for 3-5 hours. Soak dry skins first in the first way, then in salted water for 10-12 hours (15-30 g of salt per 1 liter of water). Salt should not be added if the skins have been salted before drying.
Step 2
The soaked skin must be shredded. Remove fat and muscle residues from the flesh. Flesh should be carried out with a regular spoon. This procedure must be carried out as carefully as possible, otherwise you can trim the hair roots, and your skin will simply peel off.
Step 3
Dilute the soap solution in proportions: 10 g of laundry soap for 1 liter of water or 3.5 g of washing powder with the addition of soda ash. Rinse the skinned skin in this solution. Rinse in clean water and wipe with a dry cloth.
Step 4
Now start pickling or pickling. These operations are necessary to change the physicochemical properties of the flesh. Prepare a solution. For 1 liter of water, 10-15 g of concentrated acetic acid and 40 g of sodium chloride are required. Liquid coefficient - 7. Liquid coefficient equal to 7 - this means that 1 kg of skins will require 7 liters of solution. At a solution temperature of 35-40 degrees, the skins are kept for 4-6 hours. At a temperature of 20 degrees - a day. Then, to remove any remaining vinegar, rinse the skins in a baking soda solution.
Step 5
After all procedures, fold the skins in a stack for ripening. Ripening time from 12 to 48 hours. After ripening, you can start tanning. The purpose of tanning is to consolidate all the properties obtained from the previous procedures.
Step 6
You can prepare a tanning solution from the bark of a willow, marsh wild rosemary, alder or oak. Place pieces of bark and small twigs in an enamel bowl, sprinkle with salt and cover with water. For 1 liter of water, 200-250 g of bark and branches and 50-60 g of salt are required. Boil, refrigerate and drain into another bowl. Soak the skins in this solution for about a day, stirring frequently.
Step 7
Remove the skins from the solution, squeeze, fold. Cover the stack with a board, put a weight of 5-7 kg on the board. Leave the skins under load for 2 days.
Step 8
After lying down, apply a fat emulsion to the skin with a cotton swab. Boil water to make an emulsion. For 1 liter of water, add 60 g of laundry soap, melted pork fat (as much as water) and ammonia (10-12 ml per 1 liter). After applying the solution to the flesh, fold the stack and leave for 3-4 hours.
Step 9
Dry the skins at a temperature not exceeding 30 degrees. Wipe the skin with chalk or plaster powder. Remove any irregularities with sandpaper. Shake the skins. Knead the skins on the edge of the board if necessary. Sprinkle the fur with sawdust from non-resinous trees. Shake and comb the fur again.
