Monday, December 12, 2005

Tannery of the Fes Medina


Tannery of the Fez Medina
Originally uploaded by crisis-tour.
Fes has strong artisenal roots stretching back to medieval times and continues to practice these crafts in traditional ways. As strong as these traditions is the stench coming off the tanning pits, a special sauce including bird guano, cow urine, fish oils, animal fats and brains, chromium salts, and sulfuric acid.

Hey Anna, do they Italians do their leather this way too?

1 Comments:

At December 13, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I beat, and later they would charge a lot claiming special colors, hand made and so forth, (urine cow) Yeah whatever!
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