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Looking Back At: Making Leather at Itz Tannery
While most of us think of leather as cowhide, Erwin Itz of Fredericksburg made leather out of just about every animal hide you can imagine – from a rabbit to an elephant. He could turn cowhide into chaps, deerskin into gloves and the hide of a bear into a floor rug, with a head or without. Tanning is the process for transforming animal hide into leather.
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