Hydrothermal stability of the wet white leathers was obtained with measurements undertaken using the Micro-
Hot Table device, with average Ts = 76.1 C, as shown in Fig. 9.
Finally, the standard method which is usually used for shrinkage temperature (Ts) measurement of leather was
used for wet white leather. The Ts obtained by this method was 77 for grain and 75 for split wet white leather. Table 6
summarize the shrinkage temperature values determined for new wet white leather by the 3 different method which
ranged from 73.9 to 77 C. This shrinkage temperature can assure successfully processing of wet white leather through
the subsequent mechanical operations as demonstrated with the photographic image of Fig. 3.