#Tanning rabbit hides skin#

The use of 10% fatliquor produces the highest tensile strength. The use of fatliquor up to 20% increased the rabbit leather softness and elongation, but there was a decrease at 25%. Level of fatliquor affects (P<0.05) softness, elongation, tensile strength, and tear strength of rabbit fur leather. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance followed by DuncanвЂ™s New Multiple Range Test. In this study, the physical quality of rabbit fur leather was measured in tension, elongation, tensile strength, and tear strength. The five treatments were level of fatliquor: 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, and 25%. A total of 15 sheets of Indonesian local rabbit leather (30 cm long and 26 cm wide) were randomly divided into 5 treatments with 3 replicates.

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of fatliquor level on the physical quality of Indonesian rabbit fur leather. Overall, our analyses suggest that, in this case, the tanned leather product does not have sufficient resistance for application in clothing production. However, samples in the same region proved to have higher elasticity (64.57%) in the longitudinal direction, although there was no difference in the progressive tearing analysis (21.07-23.50 N/mm). Leather presented a pH of 4.9 and contained 2.0% chromium oxide, 25.5% extractable substances in dichloromethane, and these characteristics were coupled with a higher tensile strength (10.84 N/mm(2)) in the dorsal region. At the end of processing, the leather analysis revealed low moisture (31.76%), protein (46.48%) and fat content (24.95%), and a high ash content (8.58%). A split plot design was used with plot treatments (leather regions: R1=dorsal and R2=flank) and subplots directions (S1=longitudinal and S2=transversal), using 10 examples per treatment. After tanning, samples from the dorsal and flank regions were removed for tensile and physicochemical testing in the longitudinal and transverse directions. The in natura treatment comprise skins without any processing, while semi-finished treatment comprise skins after soaking, fleshing, liming, de-liming, purging, degreasing, pickling, tanning, neutralising, re-tanning and dyeing, followed by oiling, drying, stretching and softening.

#Tanning rabbit hides skin#

Skin samples from 70-d-old males, in natura and semi-finished, were collected for evaluation. Chemical composition and physicochemical and mechanical parameters of New Zealand White rabbit tanned skin were evaluated.