Talk:Tanning
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I did a major rewrite of this article and upgraded the modern tanning section. The ancient method section still needs upgrading. I'm removing this from the cleanup list. Jerdwyer 07:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Saying that the ancients considered tanning a job for the poor, or attaching negative connotations to it in general is hugely culture specific. To assign that attitude to a group of people dubbed 'the ancients' is plain folly. This world has birthed untold millions of cultures, and certainly many of them did not treat tanning hides with such distaste. The indigineous peoples of North America treated brain-tanning with great appreciation and respect. They were in possession of the knowledge of many scores of different tanning processes, utilizing hundreds of different plants or other naturally produced resources. It was the combination and re-combination of these processes that allowed someone with a creative urge to entice highly specific qualities out of the hides they worked.
Unfortunately I don't have first hand experience in tanning under a primitive setting, but I know lots of people who do. It is a vast field, with many many many things that aren't even touched upon in this article. I will try and find someone to edit this.
-Jared
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[edit] "except Buffalo" ???
what's with that buffalo bit in the last paragraph of the 'ancient tanning' section? Looks like random vandalism or something to me. It should be elaborated on if it is true...I'm certainly not familiar with it and it appears to be some local thing —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 125.238.11.116 (talk) 03:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Review
I am in the process of writing the entire leather making process linked through the "Leather" main page in accordance with the WP:MOS. This page is ambiguous as it lumps other leather making operations into the "tanning" operation. I acknowledge that tanneries do many things other than tan and for many years the entire leather making process was called the tanning process but I submit that this terminology is misleading and confusing for the reader and not robust enough for the encyclopedic nature of Wikipedia. With this in mind I propose that we move some of the valuable content from this page into the relevant sections of the leather making process and use this stub as the rightful place of the "tanning" operation to avoid reader confusion. I welcome any discussion on this before I start these changes.Plugflower (talk) 15:38, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Changed a bit
Now I have done a major rewrite of the page.Specially the "Modern methods of Tanning" portion. Feel free to upgrade it or pass suggestions to make it even better
urbane26 8th December 2007
[edit] Links
I just deleted a link (that has aparenly been deleted before) to a comercial site selling cow hides, leather rugs, and other products. Had they ANY discussion of the tanning process (which could have been linked to directly) I would have perhaps seen some relevance. I also added back a link to a U.S. Government publication on home tanning of leather from a previos version of the page. For some reason somebody thought it was link spam. There are probably more good links out there to be found. Ferritecore (talk) 23:48, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
