S5 Fine Art Studio Technology: Leather and Leather Processing

These Trinity College Nabbingo notes introduce leather as a material for Senior 5 Fine Art studio technology. They distinguish hides, skins and kip, and connect different animal sources with leather qualities and craft uses. The notes outline three processing stages: cleaning, tanning and finishing. Topics include washing, liming, dehairing, vegetable tanning, chrome tanning, synthetic tanning, drying, compressing, embossing, dyeing and measurement. Four guiding questions ask learners to consider leather quality, reasons for processing, tanning methods and differences between leather and dried hides or skins used for drums.