Pengaruh cara pengawetan terhadap sifat fisis kulit kelinci rex berbulu

This experiment was done to compare the preservation (curing) method of for Rex rabbit skin on their physical properties tensile strength, tear strength and stick-tear strength. The raw material used in this experiment were 36 pieces rabbit skin. The skins devided in to three curing methods were salted, dry salted and combination dry salted and poison each nine pieces respectively. Nine pieces for uncured/fresh skins used as control. The cured and uncured skins were than processed as finished leather. The physical properties of cured finish leather were analyzed and compare with physical properties of uncured leather. The physical properties of uncured leather had better quality compared than cured leather.