Nakedness (tanning)

Craftsmen performing manual dehairing or flesh removal to gain nakedness with the scissors on the tannery tree in the water workshop of a tannery. In the background there are other craftsmen who are laying pelts in a tanning pit.

In the tannery, the skin prepared for the production of leather or parchment is called nakedness . Pelts are therefore a preliminary product of the craft or industrial technology, in the course of which they are made durable by the action of tanning agents on hides treated in this way and thus made available for further processing into final products. The work steps for the extraction of pelts take place in the water workshop , which is part of the tannery.

However, the term “nakedness” is only used when the skin of the animal has been stripped of its hair on the top and meat on the underside (also known as the meat side or carrion side). In the previous technological process, the terms “skin” or “raw skin” are used.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Groß : On the history of the tannery in Saxony . Dresden 2008, pp. 17-19, ISBN 978-3-86530-113-0
2. ^ Georg Grasser: Hides, skins and leather . In: Victor Grafe (Hrsg.) Et al .: Grafes Handbuch der Organic Warenkunde, Volume V / 1 Raw materials and goods from the animal kingdom: nutrition and food, bones and glue / skins and leather, furs and tobacco products . Stuttgart 1928, here: processing of the hides on semi-finished and finished products, p. 395, 414