November 2020 Archive

Leather Tanning
Leather used by Hidebound in the manufacture of beer tankards, jacks and wine goblets, is all cow hide and UK sourced. The strongest part of a cow hide is the shoulder which also has the added advantage of many wrinkles and other features which are attractive in the finished product. However, the hide cannot be used until it has been tanned. From early medieval times until the start of the 19th Century, there was an average of four leather tanneries in each town in the Bri[..]