Leather Production (DVD)

Buying leather products will take on a whole new meaning after taking this video field trip. Follow the hides from their removal at the slaughter plant and then on to the "web blue" hide tannery in Dakota City, where hides are defleshed, pickled and given a chrome mineral treatment. The tour follows the tanned hide to the Tony Lama factory in El Paso, where skilled workers cut the leather into patterns and then glue, stitch, form, tack, dye and polish the leather to create the finished product--a shiny pair of Tony Lama boots. Includes Study Guide.

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