X-Nico

14 unusual facts about Tanning


140–142 Hospital Street, Nantwich

The present building dates originally from the late 16th century, and was built by John Crewe (c. 1524–98), who is said to have been a tanner.

Crispin and Crispinian

Saints Crispin and Crispinian are the French Christian patron saints of cobblers, tanners, and leather workers.

Cuvier's dwarf caiman

This may be because the ventral skin in this species is too heavily armoured to make it easy to tan.

Hospital of St Nicholas, Nantwich

The Wilbrahams later leased the land to a tanner, who built a tannery on part of the site.

John Winebrenner Rife

He attended the common schools, and learned the trade of tanner.

Monticello, Missouri

On July 9, 1862 Confederate guerrilla leader Raphael Smith, a pre-war tanner in the area, raided Monticello with a force of eighty men.

Portsmouth, Kingston

The shoreline was soon home to numerous tanneries, numerous breweries including Molson and Labatt, shipyards, sawmills, and the nearby penitentiary and asylum.

Rib Lake, Wisconsin

In 1891, Fayette Shaw started a tannery in Rib Lake, which used tannic acid from locally harvested hemlock bark to tan hides from as far away as South America to make leather.

Sam Houston Park

A Virginian who came to Houston in 1839, Kellum operated a brick kiln, a tannery and saw mill on the property.

Säter

Sweden's first copper mine was built at the location in 1624, influenced by its proximity to the copper mountain at Falun with its tannery that had been located in Säter a few years earlier.

Sidney Rigdon

From 1824 to 1826, Rigdon worked as a journeyman tanner in Pittsburgh, while preaching Campbell's Restorationism on Sundays in the courthouse.

Taking the piss

Another theory is that, when tanners had huge pots outside where they worked, the public would be encouraged to urinate into these pots as tanners used the urine to help with tanning and then the saying of "taking the piss" came into use.

Theodore Wolfner

After spending some time in his father's tannery in order to acquire a practical knowledge of the manufacture of leather, he undertook an extensive journey, visiting Germany, Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey.

William of Norwich

William was an apprentice tanner who regularly came into contact with Jews and visited their homes as part of his trade.


Augustin de La Balme

Augustin Mottin was born 28 August 1733, in the French Alps near Saint-Antoine, the son of a tanner.

Bolham, Nottinghamshire

Bolham Mills on the River Idle is a tanning mill, the buildings being converted in the mid 19th century from a water-powered paper mill built circa 1800 .

Catechu

Early research by Sir Humphry Davy in the early 19th century first demonstrated the use of catechu in tanning over more expensive and traditional oak extracts.

Cedar Run, Pennsylvania

In the 1880s and most of the 1890s, a daily stagecoach carried passengers and freight between the nearby lumbering and tanning village of Leetonia and Cedar Run and its station on the railroad line along Pine Creek.

Dorothea Tanning

In 1949, Tanning and Ernst relocated to France, where they divided their time between Paris and Touraine, returning to Sedona for intervals through the early and mid 1950s.

Grahamsville Historic District

Judge Stoddard Hammond became rich through this industry, building a tannery complex along nearby Chestnut Creek and a Gothic Revival cottage overlooking it in 1857.

Gravdal, Nordland

However, Gravdal still has a kindergarten, primary school, bowling alley, kiosk of the Narvesen-chain, an RV-dealership, hair salon, tanning salon, and a night club called Titanic Dancing (which by legend once hosted legendary actor Al Pacino, who was shooting scenes for a movie (Revolution 1776) on the Lofoten Islands).

Great Greenland Furhouse

Great Greenland Furhouse is a modern tanning and production company that processes furs and sells clothing, fashion wear and other products made of Greenland fur and seal skin, located in Qaqortoq, south Greenland.

Hermann Emil Fischer

In addition to his work in the fields already mentioned, Fischer also studied the enzymes and the chemical substances in the lichens which he found during his frequent holidays in the Black Forest, and also substances used in tanning and, during the final years of his life, the fats.

Leather production processes

The operation flow has to follow the preparatory → tanning → crusting → surface coating sub-process order without deviation, but some of the sub-processes can be omitted to make certain leathers (or partially tanned/ untanned products).

Melanotan

Melanotan II, a drug originally developed as a skin tanning agent, but subsequently investigated as a potential treatment for sexual dysfunction

Afamelanotide, originally developed under the names "Melanotan-1" or "Melanotan I" for skin tanning, a drug currently in trials in implant form as a prophylactic treatment for a series of light affected skin disorders and potential skin cancer preventative agent

Melanotan II

A pilot Phase I clinical trial conducted on three males by the College of Medicine, Pharmacology Department, University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona published in 1996 reported that, "Melanotan II has tanning activity in humans given only 5 low doses every other day by subcutaneous injection."

Puerto Casado

Tannin is a substance extracted from the "quebracho" tree, used for tanning hides.

Punky Meadows

Meadows has retired from the music business, and for 13 years owned and ran a tanning salon in Oakton, VA.

Saint-Henri, Montreal

The area, historically known as Les Tanneries because of the artisans shops where leather tanning took place, was named for St. Henry via the Église Saint-Henri, which at one time formed Place Saint-Henri along with the community's fire and police station.

Shibden Hall

The hall has a variety of restored workshops, including a brewery, a basket-weaving shop, a tannery, a stable and an extensive collection of horse-drawn carriages.

Suntan lotion

Sunscreen, used to decrease tanning and prevent sunburn

Tanning booth

In February 2012 the state Government of New South Wales in Australia announced its intention to ban new solariums (including tanning beds), starting in 2014.

West Sayville, New York

Edith Corse Evans, heir to a hide-tanning and real estate fortune with a West Sayville summer home, was a passenger on the Titanic.