currier

{{short description|Person who dresses and colors tanned leather}}

{{Other uses}}

{{distinguish|Courier}}

{{wiktionary | currier}}

File:Early 20th century tanner knife by Nicolai Clasen Hamburg Germany.jpg

A currier is a specialist in the leather-processing trade. After the tanning process, the currier[http://www.curriers.co.uk/ The Curriers' Company] applies techniques of dressing, finishing and colouring to a tanned hide to make it strong, flexible and waterproof.

{{cite book

|author1 = Julia de Fontenelle (Jean-Sébastien-Eugène, M.)

|last2 = Malepeyre

|first2 = François

|editor-last1 = Morfit

|editor-first1 = Campbell

|editor-link1 = Campbell Morfit

|year = 1852

|title = The Arts of Tanning, Currying, and Leather Dressing: Theoretically Considered in All Their Details

|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5w8LAAAAIAAJ

|publication-place = Philadelphia

|publisher = H.C. Baird

|access-date = 13 November 2023

}}

The leather is stretched and burnished to produce a uniform thickness and suppleness, and dyeing and other chemical finishes give the leather its desired colour.

After currying, the leather is then ready to pass to the fashioning trades such as saddlery, bridlery, shoemaking or glovemaking.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}