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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 4330037, member: 8267&quot;]It depends on how the skin was tanned. Fur skins are tanned with methods that preserve the hair, and tend to be less water resistant than other types of leather. Tanning with alum/aluminum sulfate (&quot;tawing&quot;) was a common method of preparing fine furs until quite recently. Unfortunately, the alum tanning agent can be washed out if such leather is soaked, resulting in a stiff condition such as you describe, almost like rawhide. The hair may also begin to fall out. If the fur was alum tanned, I am afraid it will not be salvageable.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.hewit.com/skin_deep/?volume=11&amp;article=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hewit.com/skin_deep/?volume=11&amp;article=2" rel="nofollow">https://www.hewit.com/skin_deep/?volume=11&amp;article=2</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.leather-dictionary.com/index.php/Tawing_with_alum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.leather-dictionary.com/index.php/Tawing_with_alum" rel="nofollow">https://www.leather-dictionary.com/index.php/Tawing_with_alum</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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