Leather
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Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay. The most common leathers come from cattle, sheep, goats
A variety of leather products and leather-working tools
Leather tanning in Timor-Leste
Ancient leather tanning in Fez, Morocco
Tanned leather in Marrakesh
Tanbark
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Tanbark is the bark of certain species of trees, traditionally used for tanning hides into leather.
Workers peeling hemlock bark for the tannery in Prattsville, New York, United States
Waterwheel at Combe House Hotel in Holford, Somerset, England. The overshot waterwheel was cast by Bridgwater ironfounder H Culverwell & Co in 1892 to replace an earlier wheel. It was used to grind oak bark for the tannery complex established here in the 1840s by James Hayman. When the tannery closed in 1900, the waterwheel was adapted to other uses, such as grinding grain for grist, cutting chaff, chopping apples for the cider press, and generating electricity. It also cracked stones in a nearby quarry. The gearing survives, too.
Removal of bark from oak branches
Another view of the process