The art of tanning and currying leather: with an account of all the different processes made use of in Europe and Asia for dying leather red and yellow / Collected and published at the expence of the Dublin Society. To which are added, Mr. Philippo's method of dying the Turkey leather. As approved of by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. and for which he had a reward of one hundred pounds, and their gold medal, for the secret.

  • C. V., member of the Society
Date:
1774
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Credit: The art of tanning and currying leather: with an account of all the different processes made use of in Europe and Asia for dying leather red and yellow / Collected and published at the expence of the Dublin Society. To which are added, Mr. Philippo's method of dying the Turkey leather. As approved of by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. and for which he had a reward of one hundred pounds, and their gold medal, for the secret. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Birft Coft and Expences of Tanning ioo Hides into Soal Leather, by Dr. Mac Bride’s Method. 1; s; d0 300 hides, as before — — 125 0 0 So barrels of bark, ditto — 20 0 0 Intereft for 9 months, at 6per cent. — — —» 5 12 6 Journeymens wages for nine months on 100 hides -— 3 18 0 To railing, &c. at 6d. per hide 2 iO 0 17 6 , 0 6 In favour of the new method 26 15 6 20 2 16 O Which faying'Of 261. 15s. 6d. added to 16I. 2s. makes 42I. 17s. 6d. faving on 400]. L2S. And a further profit is faid to arife to this new method, by encreafing the weight and folidity of the leather about eight pounds in leventy* It appears that the DodtorY difcovery confifts partly in rendering the hides more fufceptible of the impreffion of the ooze, and