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==The tanning process==
After the flesh had been removed from the skin and it had been fully cleaned it is then immersed in a bath of fermenting barley or other starchy material. This makes the skin stable but makes the skins susceptible to water damage as the acids can be washed out.
Oil, alum and vegetable tanning methods where also used in the same manner as tanning leather. These methods though make the skin tighter and less pliable. [THOMSON 1998:p.8]
==The use of untanned hides==
===shoes===
===Ropes===
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*Saga of Erik the Red: "a black hood of lambskin, lined with ermine"; "On her hands she had gloves of ermine-skin, and they were white and hairy within."
*Einhard describing Charlemagne's dress: "In winter he protected his chest and shoulders with a thorax of otterskin and/or ermine."
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