Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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retanning

The process of subjecting a hide or skin, which has been more-or-less completely tanned by one process (or one kind or blend of tanning agents), to a second tanning process, involving similar, or, more usually, different tanning agents. A typical retanning process is CHROME RETAN .

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