| | ::::While searching, I found this quote, which illustrates the point I was making: | | ::::While searching, I found this quote, which illustrates the point I was making: |
| | ::::*{{quote-book|title=The manufacture of leather|page=394|author=Charles Thomas Davis|year=1897|passage=When they are ready for scouring, some curriers object to warm water, but it is very necessary for these goods, as it not only aids in cleansing, but it opens or rather mellows the fibres so that the leather may be fully extended and laid flat; they should then be placed in a tub or vat, with sufficient warm water to cover them without pressure, and be firmly slicked out on the flesh and well brushed over and put back into rather '''warmer''' water than before, but not '''hotter''' than the hand can be held in, as heat in this state of leather that will not injure the flesh of the operator will not injure the article operated on.}} | | ::::*{{quote-book|title=The manufacture of leather|page=394|author=Charles Thomas Davis|year=1897|passage=When they are ready for scouring, some curriers object to warm water, but it is very necessary for these goods, as it not only aids in cleansing, but it opens or rather mellows the fibres so that the leather may be fully extended and laid flat; they should then be placed in a tub or vat, with sufficient warm water to cover them without pressure, and be firmly slicked out on the flesh and well brushed over and put back into rather '''warmer''' water than before, but not '''hotter''' than the hand can be held in, as heat in this state of leather that will not injure the flesh of the operator will not injure the article operated on.}} |
| | ::::HTH. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 02:37, 31 January 2012 (UTC) | | ::::HTH. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 02:37, 31 January 2012 (UTC) |
