// Unit group · 7535

Pelt Dressers, Tanners and Fellmongers

Pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers trim, scrape, clean, tan, buff and dye animal hides, pelts or skins to produce leather stock and finished furs for making garments and other products.

7 Craft and Related Trades Workers / 75 Food Processing, Woodworking, Garment and Other Craft and Related Trades Workers / 753 Garment and Related Trades Workers / All level 4

// Working conditions

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// Hand tools

  1. 1General Hand Tool Operation

sorting and grading pelts, hides and skins according to colour, shading, size and density

scraping particles of flesh, fat or protective tissue from skins or pelts to clean and soften them

removing hair from skin or hides soaked in lime water

preparing hides by curing them with salt

removing long, coarse hair from pelts and trimming underlying hair to even length

tanning and dressing pelts to improve lustre and beauty or restore natural appearance of pelts

preparing bark and myrobalan liquor for treating hides or skins

treating hides and skins in tanning solution to convert them into leather

tinting or dyeing furs to enhance natural shades of fur

removing wrinkles and setting grains on wet hide or skin

dressing and applying dyes and stains to leather

stretching and smoothing dressed pelts

seasoning leather by applying chemical solution or oil evenly on surface by hand brush and allowing it to dry in open air.

Included occupations

Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Fellmonger
- Pelt grader
- Tanner

Excluded occupations

Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Tanning machine operator - 8155

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