Pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers trim, scrape, clean, tan, buff and dye animal hides, pelts or skins to produce leather stock and finished furs for making garments and other products.
Skill level:
Semi-skilled
Review your Income
- Salary range for the majority of workers in Pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers - from USh182,609 to USh604,009 per month - 2025.
- A Pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers typically earns between USh182,609 and USh436,912 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between USh169,052 and USh343,217 per month for a working week of 48 hours.
Duties and tasks
- Sorting and grading pelts, hides and skins according to colour, shading, size and density
- Scraping particles of flesh, fat, or protective tissue from skins or pelts to clean and soften them
- Removing hair from skin or hides soaked in lime water
- Preparing hides by curing them with salt
- Removing long, coarse hair from pelts and trimming underlying hair to even length
- Tanning and dressing pelts to improve lustre and beauty or to restore the natural appearance of pelts
- Preparing bark and myrobalan liquor for treating hides or skins
- Treating hides and skins in tanning solution to convert them into leather
- Tinting or dyeing furs to enhance natural shades of fur
- Removing wrinkles and setting grains on wet hides or skins
- Dressing and applying dyes and stains to leather
- Stretching and smoothing dressed pelts
- Seasoning leather by applying chemical solution or oil evenly onto the surface by hand brush and allowing it to dry in open air
