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The Leather Tannery
 Tanning is a general term used for the process of converting animal skins to finished leather. Animal hides and skins absorb tannins to keep them from decaying and to keep them pliable. Technically, the term "tanning" refers to the process by which collagen fibers in a hide react with a chemical agent (tannin, alum or other chemical), but the term leather tanning also commonly refers to the entire leathermaking process. (1)
In the bible Jesus refers to wineskins which was made of leather.
"No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved. No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’"
Luke 5:37,38
New wine, as it ferments, expands. The fermenting of new wine builds up pressure in its container which can burst old skins. This also happens when you open a corked wine bottle.
Old wineskins when empty are no longer supple and they crack and tear under the pressure of the expanding new wine.
Referances:
(1) and photo of tanner found at serc.carleton.edu
History of Leather Tanning for kids.
www.Jesus Walk.com has more explanation on this parable from Jesus.
CRAFT
Leather Jewel/Coin Purse
Materials Needed:
leather
plastic string
beads - black, red, white, yellow, green and blue
scissors
leather hole punch
DIRECTIONS:
Cut out circle from leather material.
We made ours 10 inches across and all around.
Punch 20 holes spaced evenly around the leather cloth.
Cut plastic band about 15 inches long.
Thread in and out through the holes.
Tie knot on one end and thread beads.
Tie knot on the other end and put string tight.
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