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Tanning - Mégisserie

The word Mégisserie is used for the tanning of sheep, calf, goat, or baby cows skins, which is almost exclusively the case in Mazamet.

Mégisserie is a more complex and technical industry than fellmongery is. Thus, to avoid being boring, I will only describe the processes roughly ...

First of all, one has to know that Mégisserie does not strictly depend on fellmongery. It can exist independantely, but it started and expanded itself in Mazamet because the cuirot was easy and cheap raw material.

Geographically in Mazamet, the location of the fellmongery factories and the Mégisserie factories is often different: the Mégisseries are set on the Thoré river (which water is harder than that of the Arnette river), because Mégisserie doesn't necessarily need soft water. But sometimes, fellmongery and Mégisserie works are done in the same factory, one after the other.


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