Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. [processes and techniques by material]
6. hide and skin processing

Narrower term/s

• bating
• depilation
• fleshing
• liming
• scudding
• puering
• pickling (tanning process)
• sweating
• frizing
• drenching

Anotations

Scope note:

Any or all of those processes involved in the manufacture of leather or rawhide that follow curing and precede tanning or tawing of skins or hides. The objective is to rid the skins or hides of substances not wanted in the finished leather, and to put them in the proper chemical and physical condition for tanning or tawing.