alum-tawed skin

Preferred label
alum-tawed skin
alungarvet skinn
alūninė oda
Alternative label
tawed
white leather
white tawed
whittawed
cuir de Hongrie
hungarian leather
Note (en)
Note
A skin prepared in an aqueous solution of a double salt of aluminium and potassium sulphates. The process, which is of great antiquity, produces a white skin which is dried (crusted) and then staked, or worked over a blunt metal knife, to produce a soft, supple skin, qualities which could be enhanced by the addition of flour and egg-yolk to the tawing solution. If wetted again, as many blind-tooled German bindings of the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century were before tooling, the skin becomes once more hard and horny, as though it had reverted to the raw, untanned state. Alum-tawed skin is generally more durable and resistant to deterioration than tanned skins.
Note (nb)
Note
mineralsk garveprosess der aluminiumsulfat (alun) og natriumsulfat (koksalt) er anvendt for å få et hvitt og smidig skinn
Note (lt)
Note
Oda, išdirbta kalio aliuminio sulfato dvigubosios druskos vandeniniu tirpalu. Šio itin archaiško odos išdirbimo metu gaunama išdžiovinta (standi) balta oda, kuri vėliau yra minkštinama ant specialaus kuolo arba bukais metalinio peilio ašmenimis, taip suteikiant odai lankstumo. Išdirbimo metu į tirpalą įmaišius miltų ir kiaušinio trynio oda tampa dar elastingesnė. Jei oda yra iš naujo drėkinama (pavyzdžiui, XV a. pabaigoje – XVIII a. viduryje aklaisiais įspaudais puošiant daugelį vokiškų įrišų), ji vėl sukietėja ir suragėja, tarsi grįždama į žaliavinės, neišdirbtos odos būklę. Alūninio išdirbimo oda paprastai yra ilgaamžiškesnė ir atsparesnė pažeidimams nei augalinio rauginimo oda.
Scope note source reference

source-reference-174

Submitted by admin on
Source

Reed (1972)

Reed, R., 1972. Ancient Skins, Parchments and Leathers, London: Seminar Press.

Additional Reference

pp. 62-65

source-reference-192

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Middleton (1994, 4th ed.)

Bernard Middleton, A history of English Craft Bookbinding Techniques, New Castle, London, Oak Knoll Press, The British Library, 1994 (4th ed.)

Additional Reference

p. 117

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