Brain tannage

Esquema

Getty AAT: Processes and techniques by specific type

Jerarquía

<processes and techniques by material> > hide and skin processing > <tanning and tanning-like processes>

Descripción

Treating skins or hides with brain tissue which contains phosphorous compounds that oxidize oils to aldehydes. The process is not considered true tanning, as it is reversible, and the shrinkage temperature of the resulting material is not raised above that of the original.

URI original del concepto

http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263230

Otros términos

  • looien met hersenen [nl]
  • curtido por agentes del tejido cerebral [es]
  • brain-tanned [en]
  • brain tanning [en]
  • tannage, brain [en]
  • tanning, brain [en]
  • curtido [es]