Curing a Goat Skin
Dear Aunt Daisy, Would you be kind enough to send me instructions, if you can get them, of how to cure and dye a goat skin for a mat? I once tried a salt dressing on a sheepskin, but it went very hard, and
/ was not a bit nice,-
R.
A.
(Tatuanui).
A New Plymouth Link in the Daisy Chain once answered this question, saying that she had successfully cured a goat skin with nothing but baking soda. She said that the skin must first be scraped free from any flesh and made quite clean; and then stretched out flat on the floor of the shed, or some flat surface, and tacked to hold it firm. Then rub in about a pound of baking soda, Leave for about a week. It should then be quite white and pliable, If it is hard, rub it with a piece of pumice, working all the hardness out of it, Another listener recommended wetting the skin first with kerosene, and then rubbing in baking soda, thus forming a kind of paste; and then using the pumice as before, after a few days. Do write again and let us know how you get on. Some reader may be able to give us some more advice on this subject. It is one of pretty general interest. As to dyeing it, I would advise leaving it its natural colour; but if you really want to dye it, I suppose you would fallow the same general idea as of dyeing a sheep skin. Mix up a good dye according to directions, and dab it evenly all over the hair with a sponge. I think the hair is harder to dye than the wool of the sheep skin, however, land it may not be so successful,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 126, 21 November 1941, Page 46
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301Curing a Goat Skin New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 126, 21 November 1941, Page 46
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