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This photograph was taken in 1954 when hides were still hand-scudded. After hair and flesh were removed chemically and mechanically, scudding removed fine hair roots to produce leather of even grain and depth. [Artistically, it is interesting to…
Ansel Adams photographed this Salz Tannery employee working on the glazing process that made the California Saddle Leather TM unique.
Vegetable tanned - or tanoak - leather was hung until ready for shipping. Vegetable leather dried naturally over a period of days. Salz Tannery switched to a chrome process about 1961. The chrome process made a softer tannage, more suitable for…
Salz plant superintendent, Joe Bellas, holds the finished product. The Ansel Adams photograph was part of a series documenting each step of the leather making process in 1954.
Text of speech, illustrated by Adams photograph of redwoods.
