1. Raw Stock:Salted Raw Sheepskin from either Australia or New Zealand, by product of meat industry.
2. Wash and fleshing: Skin are soaked and washed to re hydrate them ,clean them and open up the skin for tanning. Fleshing process remove all excess fat and tissue.
3. Pickling and Tanning: The Tanning process is what converts the skin into leather, stopping putrefaction by stabilizing the collagen fibre within the skin with tanning agent. Skins are soaked in acid followed by the tanning agent in enormous wooden vat( Paddle).
4. Hydroing: Excess water is removed from the skin in a big spin dryer
5. Toggle Drying: Skins are now stretched out on frames with clips(Toggles) and hot air dried in Cabinets.
6. Cageing and degreasing :Skin tumbled in cage to soften them. Any natural fats(Lanolin) remaining within the skin are now removed by drying cleaning
7. Ironing: Once dry cleaned the fleeces are put through a hot rotary iron, make fleeces silky finish.