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Making leather at Itz Tannery
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Hindsights Michael Barr, on May 12, 2021
Making leather at Itz Tannery

While most of us think of leather as cowhide, Erwin Itz of Fredericksburg made leather out of just about every animal hide you can imagine — from a rabbit to an elephant. He could turn cowhide into chaps, deerskin into gloves and the hide of a bear into a floor rug, with a head or without. Tanning

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