Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanners at the Chouara Tannery in Morocco have been transforming animal hides into leather since the 11th century. The tanning ...

The use of leather predates written history. Its importance in aiding the protection and survival of humans can’t be understated, and its continued prevalence in wardrobes speaks to its lasting ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As president of Salz Tannery, Norm Lezin created a name for making the finest leather via Old West craftsmanship, in an unchanged industrial complex for over ...

ON A RECENT VACATION in Morocco, my husband and I watched one of the oldest chemical processes in action: the conversion of animal hides into leather by a process that was already well-developed by ...

Labor Day started in New York in 1882 and was first celebrated in California in 1892, two years before it became a federal holiday in 1894. River Street’s tannery workers celebrated Labor Day at Imus ...