You will notice that not infrequently fermentable sugar content is mentioned in the literature. The color will also vary a lot from dark brown, to pinkish, red, light tan and tending toward yellow. I would guess that most plants with enough tannin will make at least okay, useable leather for a home tanner. All indications so far though are that those oak galls make a stiff, brittle leather. Our large oak galls for instance are easy to gather and extremely high in tanning agents. That is one reason to test multiple materials if you are forging into experimental territory with unknown plants. The quality of leather will vary with the tanning material used. An important point however is that not all plants that can be used to tan a hide are actually going to make very good leather. Even in deserts without trees, there are probably species of shrubs with high tannin contents.
If you want to research a specific material more, you can use sites like and Try different combinations of keywords such and as leather, tanning, tannin, the plant’s common names and the plants botanic name (or names, plural since they often change over the course of 100 years or more in order to keep botanists employed and make them look busy).Īnother thing I’d like to point out is that this large body of information illustrates just how common tannins are in plants around the world, and that there is probably something usable where you live, even if you are not seeing it. There is still much more that could be dug up on the subject. To top it off, at the end there is a surprisingly long bibliography of publications on tanning materials put out by the USDA, with such fun topics as tannin content of some acorns, Tannin content of pacific coast trees, tanning materials in South Africa and the tanning industry of Washington state.
ALIUM FOR TANNING COW HIDES FULL
But I decided to list a bunch of full text excerpts on tanning materials from some other old out of copyright tanning books. That information comes largely from Howe’s book on tanning materials, which I think is still in copyright. I had already typed up a partial list for a vegetable tanning book project that I have done some writing on which is mostly presented here (don’t hold your breath on me publishing it anytime soon).
Here is a very large amount of information to address fill that gap. (5 Magic), ( Chain (45 Magic) or Ricochet (45 Ranged) in order to kill more cows.Īt times it may be better to make soft leather instead - hard leather is currently worth 670, while soft leather is currently worth 672.I am asked a lot about what tanning materials people should use in their part of the world.
Players with sufficient Magic or Ranged levels may use Dragon Breath Run further north to the Bank Gnome, bank the leather, run back to the cow pen, and repeat.įor players who intend to use either Magic or Ranged, it is highly recommended to equip a weapon with decent accuracy and does not use ammunition (E.g. Once you have 28 cowhides, run slightly north to Jack Oval, who will tan them into hard leather for 3 coins each. This is faster than waiting for the first one to finish dying. Since they have a fairly long death animation, begin by killing multiple cows before looting the first cow's hide. Start killing the cows - they will respawn instantly.
The pen is located south of the lodestone in Burthorpe. Level 2 cows in Burthorpe have 25 life points and always drop cowhide.
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