Hide and skin Tanner

A Tanner is a person who works to cure animal hides and skins into usable materials. They are loosely aligned with the hunters guild. Tanning is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather. A tannery is the place where the skins are processed. Tanning hide into leather involves a process which permanently alters the protein structure of skin, making it more durable and less susceptible to decomposition, and also possibly coloring it. Before tanning, the skins are unhaired, degreased, desalted and soaked in water over a period of 6 hours to 2 days. Historically this process was considered a noxious or "odoriferous trade" and relegated to the outskirts of town.
Leather is tanned using tannins extracted from vegetable matter, such as tree bark prepared in bark mills. It is supple and brown in color, with the exact shade depending on the mix of materials and the color of the skin. The color tan derives its name from the appearance of undyed vegetable-tanned leather. Vegetable-tanned leather is not stable in water; it tends to discolor, and if left to soak and then dry, it shrinks and becomes harder. This is a feature of oak-bark-tanned leather that is exploited in traditional shoemaking. In hot water, it shrinks drastically and partly congeals, becoming rigid and eventually brittle. Boiled leather is an example of this, where the leather has been hardened by being immersed in hot water, or in boiled wax or similar substances.

Career

Career Progression

Tanning starts at 10 points for LV-1 and goes to 20 points for LV-2 30 for LV-3 and so on to LV-5
LV-1: Simple hide preparation and curing. LV-2: Proper hardening and dying or leathers and hides. LV-3: Ability to prep and cure hides without damaging the fur atached LV-4: Ability to work with very soft and rare furs. LV-5: Ability to cure Chitin plates and exotic beast skins.