The process of oak-bark tanning at Baker’s

Courtesy of Terry Dear, here is a video showing how a traditional English oak-bark tannage of cattlehide is done:

(copy and paste into your browser, for some reason linking or embedding ain’t working…)

2 thoughts on “The process of oak-bark tanning at Baker’s”

Paul says:

2011/01/03 at 10:01 pm

thanks for posting this – it’s from a BBC show called The Edwardian Farm; they showed how Edwardian shoes were made in the following programme

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1. indigoshrimp says:
  
  2011/01/03 at 10:36 pm
  
  Yes, I remember you mentioning a documentary on SuFu a while back…and Terry must have watched it as you did.
  I would like to watch the full documentary someday.
  
  Still trying to get the video embedding to work, awfully frustrating 😦
  
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