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34 THE RURAL VOCE
The skin remaining after the wool
is pulled off is then cleaned, pickled
and tanned, a process that takes a
minimum of three weeks.
Like many industries, this one has
been changing drastically in the past
few years. Most of the wool at one
time went to mills in New England
but nearly all of those have closed
and wool now makes its way to mills
in Mississippi and North and South
Carolina. Much of the New England
production has moved to Mexico and
that could become a future market,
Snell says.
The leather goes to New York
and even Europe and Asia,
though Asian business came to
an abrupt halt with the Asian
financial crisis last year.
While tanning of cowhides has
been shifting to low cost locations
like Mexico, the process of working
with sheepskins is very difficult in
warmer climates. Bainton Limited is
almost alone in North America in
what it does with only a couple of
smaller competitors.
While Bainton Limited provides
raw materials for other industries,
Atlas Fur Tanning and Dyeing,
meanwhile, operated by Franklin's
father Richard, creates more end
products itself. First and foremost are
its famous lambskins and sheepskins.
The ultra soft lambskins are sought
after by many parents for the cribs of
their babies while sheepskins are
used for everything from tractor and
truck seats to luxurious rugs.
The Snell family had been
involved in sheep farming since they
settled in the Londesborough area in
1848 so when Richard married
Glenyc:. Bainton, it was a uniting of
the two ends of the sheep industry. In
1968 the couple purchased Atlas Fur
Tanning and Dyeing Limited of
Cookstown and moved the operation
to their Hullett Township farm just
outside of Blyth.
The two retail outlets and two
tanneries are today a family affair
involving Richard and Glenyce and
their four children, Franklin, Richard
Jr., Jayne Marquis and Amanda
Aitken. Glenyce, Jayne and Amanda
work in the retail outlets. Richard Jr.,
who studied leather ,technology in
England, works in the tanneries.0