Tanner in apron using a stick to move a leather hide in a liming pit in a tannery. The hides are soaked in curing, liming and picking pits to soften and clean the leather. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, J. Rivington, London, 1821.

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