Tanning Hides for Robes In a Wallace Faymer Guide
A Wallace Faymer article outlines detailed tanning steps for goat calf hides including soaking in salt alum and arsenic mixtures, rubbing in stages over days, washing, stretching, and drying. It notes variations for steel or cow hides and the need fleshing down before soaking. It also mentions a schoolhouse fire near Whittemore at Hayes school.