Paraguayan quebracho and tannin extract for spanish tanning: Barcelona magazine "Skin and Industries" (1909-1940)

Abstract

The connection between economics and journalism is the aim of this article that the role played by the brothers Carlos and Pedro Pablo de Corral y Tome to internationalize the Paraguayan quebracho tree analyzes, and import it to the city of Barcelona for tanning production. His “S.A. Extracts tannic” opened in 1909, legalized the use of quebracho tannin extract and allowed to elaborate shoes and boots for civil society and European armies. These Spanish businessmen founded in the same year the original journal The Art of Tanning, which was renamed in 1928 with the name of The Skin and Industries. Economics and Journalism possible to reconstruct the manufacturing strategies vegetable tannin extracts used by tanners since the early twentieth century until the Spanish Civil War, when the synthetic tannin was imposed.