Currier in apron shaving hair from an animal hide with a knife in a tannery. Behind him, leather hides hang drying on the wall, and other animal skins are piled up on a table. Curried leather is used for shoes, boots, saddles, bookbindings. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, J. Rivington, London, 1821.

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