{"id":1915,"date":"2023-06-04T19:42:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redbrickbuilding.co.uk\/heritage\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2023-08-08T19:49:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:49:51","slug":"skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redbrickbuilding.co.uk\/heritage\/skins\/","title":{"rendered":"Skins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You\u2019d have like a pair of pinchers – but long and with a hammer underneath them – so you\u2019d grab the skin, pull it, put the bobbin in it and knock it in. That stretched them and then they\u2019d dry, and once they were dry they were sorted. Then they come back up and they was either dyed if they were good skins for coats, or they was put in for linings.
[Jim, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To take the dry skins off, you had four on the frame. You would take it off, drop it down flat, take off one side, put on two wet skins, turn the frame right over, and then put on, do the other side. When they come out, the actual clips holding it were red hot, so you wore like a glove thing over your hand. You banged off the clips, and took the two dry off. The other person chucked the two wet skins on, and then you stretched them out.
[Jim, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nailing\n
Nailing on at Baily’s – skins were stretched on a frame, pegged and then dried
Photo: Jim Love<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two guys were ironing them with big steam irons and they had old pennies – when the iron made the seam shiny, they ran them up and down the seams and took it back to a suede finish again.
[Tim, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Skins were also chromed while pegged out. Chrome salts are used in tanning and produce soft leather suitable for coats and gloves
Photo: Alan Hooper<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Drywheeling is when the skins have been processed and dried – you start to get off some of the flesh. They\u2019ve already been in the fleshing machines in the yard, so all the fats have been taken off, but then it went into what we call dry wheeling, where the little bits of dried flesh were taken off. You start to create the nap.
[Reg, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’d get other things – I done a giraffe skin once!
[Jim, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baily\u2019s what they called brush-dyed them. You\u2019d mix up your dye with different colours and you\u2019d have them on a metal table and have a bucket behind with the dye in, and you\u2019d brush the dye into the skin and then you had another bucket with acid in it, and that did seal the sealant so that they didn\u2019t come out. And then when you done that, you do them again with clear water – special soft water.
[Jim, Baily’s]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironing is where you go into machines, physically held by people, that put in and pull out, so that you get the wool nice and pulled right up tight – nice and shiny and a lovely silky finish.
[Reg, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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