Definitions for "Liming"
Keywords:  sulphide, hide, raw, dehairing, sodium
The use of lime and sodium sulphide solution to dissolve all remaining wool from pulled sheep skins or to remove hair from cattle skins.
a process that uses chemicals to remove the hair from leather hides.
A process preliminary to tanning, which serves one or both of two purposes: to loosen the hair or wool on a hide or skin, preparatory to dehairing; and to plump or swell the fibres as of the processes necessary to prepare the substance for the action of the tan liquors. Liming is always required for the latter of these purposes.
Liming is the process of adding alkaline material to correct acidic soil. Materials include: wood ashes (strong and fast acting), ground dolomitic limestone (calcium magnesium carbonate), and ground calcitic limestone (calcium carbonate), which is also called lime.
A technique of using liming wax to stain wood a whitish color.
Keywords:  beetle, oak, worm, fashion, attack
Lime was originally used as a protection against worm and beetle attack but later became fashionable for the way it showed off the grain especially in oak. it is now currently back in fashion.
A process used to lighten the colour of hardwood. Modern liming involves a specialist paste or emulsion rather than the traditional Lime.
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