Leather

Leather

Skill(s) required:	Tanning
Object(s) required:	Limed Hide x1 Tanning Tub x1
Required by:	Objects Adventurer's Boots Backpack Coonskin Cap Farmer's Hat Farmer's Jacket Fishing Pole Fishing Trophy Highlander's Jacket Highlander's Shoes Highlander's Sporran Hunting Trophy Leather Planter's Pouch Musketeer's Hat Opera Masque Pilgrim's Hat Polished Buttons Puritan's Hat Seaweed Wobbler Storm Hat Studded Leather Stuffed Leather Ball The Latest From Paris Trapper Boots Trapper Jacket Tricorne Woo-Woo-Wand	Structures Alchemy table Canoe Cross of Saint George Press Rowboat Torchpost

About

Can be sold in Boston to NPC vendors for 8 Silver Pieces.

Place a raw hide on a Drying Frame. It'll become a Dried Hide after 8 hours.
Use Lime on a Bucket of Water to make Milk of Lime
Craft Limed Hide from the craft menu
Use a Brain on a 10L Bucket of Water to make a bucket of 10L Tanning Fluid (concentration is 5%).
Place up to four Limed Hides into the tub
Pour the Tanning Fluid into tanning tub and wait. Make sure to add 10L of Tanning Fluid per hide you wish to tan.
Every time a hide tans 100% it consumes 10L of Tanning Fluid and is converted into Leather. There's a chance of getting Foetid Ooze instead, if that happens the Tanning Fluid will not be consumed.

Note:

Whilst on the Drying Frame or Tanning Tub a faint white dial appears over the hide icon to indicate its progress. Animal hide takes roughly 8 (real) hours to dry and to tan.
Solution concentration doesn't affect tanning time. High concentration raises resulting leather quality a little bit.
Plain water can be added to the tanning tub if it's not empty.
Adding plain water dilutes the solution requiring a brain to be added. If the solution falls under (5?)%, the hides will not tan.
A Brain can be added directly to the tub if the solution falls under this concentration to bring it back up. Maximum concentration is 10%.
Brains are only acquired with butchering a dead deer, beaver or March Hare, and only after Tanning is learned.