Lionfish leather and preparation thereof
AssigneeQuintessence Marine Inc.
InventorsAarav Chavda, Roland Salatino
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Abstract
Systems and methods for preparing fish leather, which may comprise lionfish leather, are described. A method of making lionfish leather may comprise cutting, using one or more guidelines, at least a portion of a lionfish body, wherein the guidelines are configured to facilitate removal of skin from of the lionfish body; removing, using the one or more guidelines, the skin from the lionfish body, wherein the removed skin defines a cut skin pattern based on at least the guidelines; and subjecting the removed skin to at least a tanning process to provide a lionfish leather.
Claims7
A method of making lionfish leather, the method comprising:
- removing at least a portion of scales from a lionfish body to form an at least partially descaled lionfish body;
- cutting, using one or more guidelines, at least a portion of the at least partially descaled lionfish body, wherein the guidelines are configured to facilitate removal of skin from the at least partially descaled lionfish body;
- peeling, using the one or more guidelines, the skin from the at least partially descaled lionfish body, wherein the peeled skin defines a cut skin pattern based on at least the guidelines;
- brining the peeled skin in a first brine;
- removing at least a portion of flesh from the peeled skin after the first brine;
- salting the peeled skin;
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- subjecting the peeled skin to at least a tanning process to provide a lionfish leather, wherein the tanning process comprises exposing the peeled skin to a first tanning agent and exposing the peeled skin to a second tanning agent different from the first tanning agent.
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