{"id":1889,"date":"2006-04-07T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T20:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1889.html"},"modified":"2014-01-19T21:30:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T20:30:55","slug":"a-trip-to-the-tannery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2006\/04\/07\/a-trip-to-the-tannery\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip to the Tannery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hewit.com\/\">J Hewit &#038; Sons<\/a>, my favourite bookbinding supplier, I feel the overwhelming desire to bring a camera, tripod, and a day&#8217;s free time.  I don&#8217;t think I will ever tire of taking pictures there.<\/p>\n<p>I could take the &#8220;industrial site&#8221; type pictures of all of the machinery they use to dye leathers, or the &#8220;variety of stuff&#8221; pictures of the rolls and rolls of finished hides, or the &#8220;run down melancholy&#8221; shots of the light from the dusty windows falling on the worn boards of the upper floor.  I&#8217;d photograph the staff, who always treat me so well, if it wouldn&#8217;t embarrass them.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t, because I am there to buy.  I did take a few shots of the pale leathers they had piled on the Low Value Shelf upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Edges of a stack of pale goatskin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/124849548\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/35\/124849548_530562cd09_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC00956\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 7 April 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The same grained goatskin, with the marks of the stretching clips still visible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/124849646\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/38\/124849646_e36b726c1b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC00958\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 7 April 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pale calfskin, un-grained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/124849838\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/49\/124849838_0a149078fa_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC00961\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 7 April 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I can find a market for a feature article on the company &#8211; its history, its processes, its business.  I&#8217;d love to do it.  I&#8217;d love to have the excuse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I go to J Hewit &#038; Sons, my favourite bookbinding supplier, I feel the overwhelming desire to bring a camera, tripod, and a day&#8217;s free time. I don&#8217;t think I will ever tire of taking pictures there. I could take the &#8220;industrial site&#8221; type pictures of all of the machinery they use to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2006\/04\/07\/a-trip-to-the-tannery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Trip to the Tannery<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,134],"tags":[1613,1711,1654],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbinding","category-photography","tag-bookbinding-tag","tag-leather","tag-macro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}