Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1917 — Made Leather From Seaweed. [ARTICLE]

Made Leather From Seaweed.

Shark skins are not the only product of the sea one can make leather from. A French chemist more than 30 years ago succeeded in making leather from seaweed by washing it with, potash and steaming it in a boiler. The romance of leather lies in the tanning pf it, for the whole vegetable world is pressed into service! Russia leather owes its delicious aroma to the birch bark it is tanned with, and the inappreclatlve moth so dislikes It that the presence of one volume in. a row will keep all free from insects.