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Stories of history

In this section we will include a series of short stories that will collect anecdotes, topics from the antiquity of tanning, brief stories, ancient processes and other curious and easy-to-read facts.

Arrangement of the skins before being tanned (1805)

To begin to benefit a skin of any class or species, it is thrown into clear water, so that everything is covered: if it is fresh and recently removed from the animal, the next day it is removed, and a knife or knife is placed on a board. hand through the carnaza, not only to clean it of the blood and filth it contains, but also to stretch or dilate its porosities, and be ready for future benefit.

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Extraction of the dye from the indigo plant

When all the vegetables are felled, the whole harvest is placed in bundles, placed inside a very long tube with water, covered with very heavy wooden logs in the manner of a press: thus preserved, it begins to ferment.

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Tanning life in Egypt – Part I

From the years 5,000 BC. dates the oldest leather found by the Italian Schiaparelli in the excavations carried out in Ghebelén (Upper Egypt).

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The oldest tanning process

This recipe comes from the time of Sargon (722-705 BC). The Sargon tablets were found by M. de Sarzec and mainly point to interest in the period to which they date. These are effects, most of them contemporaneous with Sargon “the elder” and Naram-sin.

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First evidence of the use of footwear in Europe

In some cave paintings of the Iberian Peninsula and France traces have been recognized that seem to indicate the presence of footwear. At the site of the Warrior’s Cave in Israel, leather sandals have been identified in a tomb from 6,000 years ago.

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Why are shoe sizes not measured in centimeters?

Shoe sizes were invented by shoemakers in the 18th century in order to unify sizes. At that time, the metric system did not yet exist, the shoemakers were therefore based on the “Paris point”, equal to 2/3 of a centimeter (approximately 0.666cm), one of the numerous units of measurement of that time. It was chosen because it was widely used since the Middle Ages.

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