White tanner
White tanning is a tanning process in which tanning is carried out with minerals, such as alum or table salt and produces a particularly light, almost white leather.
White tanning was mainly used for finer and thinner leathers from calf, sheep and goats. The resulting leather qualities chevreau (goatskin), ice cream (calfskin) or kid (goatskin) were preferably processed into gloves, pouches, book covers and case covers.
Joseph Hutsteiner’s occupation in Leopoldschlag was white tanner.