Snake Skin Crafts

Reptile Industry Association

Who does not know and not be tempted with bags and accessories made of snake skin that has a pattern and a distinctive motif and appearance of a classy make anyone want to have it. This is because the bag and accessories have a long process to become a bag and accessories nan beautiful.

Make finished product from snake skin, starting from tanning stage. Tanning is the processing of raw leather into raw materials for various purposes, such as bags, jackets, belts, hats, upholstery and so on.

Snake skin tanning process after the process of taking the skin of the snake body performed several stages *, among others:

(a) Immersion: soaking the skin with water to be cleaned of dust, sand, blood, meat and fat residue by giving salt so that the skin does not rot and avoid damage;

(b) Feathering process: roughening of coarse fur or scales using a mixture of lime and sodium sulphide (Zn);

c) Flesing process: separation of remaining flesh using fleasing or manual machinery;

(d) The process of chalking using Za and vinegar aims to keep the remaining bacteria and residual Zn and lime disappear;

(e) The acidification process / picle using acidic medicine in the form of vinegar and suapel plus croom preservative aims to make skin resistant to bacteria;

(f) The drying process, dry-dried or semi-dried skin aims to allow severe processing (depletion by machine by size) to be easy; Before the process of painting the original skin color will usually be glazed with varnish, or it can also be left like the original skin, then to the next stage of staining;

(g) Coloring / dyeing process, color giving as needed and subsequent packing.

After all materials are finished, then assembled in the production room. This is where the final polishing process is done to obtain various types of bags and accessories of quality. The design was adjusted to the latest fashion developments or to order, so ready to display and ready to hunt consumers.