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  • Vegetable Tannins Used in t...
    Falcão, Lina; Araújo, Maria Eduarda M

    Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 05/2018, Volume: 23, Issue: 5
    Journal Article

    In this review, a brief description of how animal skins were transformed in leathers in Europe using different vegetable tannins will be presented. Special attention will be dedicated to the description of the type of tannins and the characteristics of the most important type of historic leathers thus obtained. The text will also focus on the description of the techniques used in the identification of these tannins in historic objects: colorimetric tests and spectroscopic analysis.