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Loyalist Dave said:Commercial tanning which mimics bark tanning
Because veg tanning is a form of bark tanning. Chromium tanning is the commercial form that "mimics" the veg tanning.
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I miss your point. Both vege-tanning and chrome tanning are commercially done. Each has a different process in the tanning, and each has different properties. Vege-tan is simply an advanced version of bark tanning, with really not very much being different in the basics and principles of the two processes. "pit tanning" is about, or is the same, as bark tanning, and is still available in some areas of the world. I believe there is a commercial source in Spain. Chrome tanning is most often done to produce soft, garment leathers, which you might say, mimics brain tanned leather, and many of the fur on tanned leathers, but can also be made to mimic vege-tan carving leathers, but only in general appearance. It cannot be easily hand carved or formed very well, but can accept hot stamping, and some amount of hot forming. It most often is not a good choice for holsters, scabbards, or sheaths, in a general sense.