Classification note
- Published code: 7535
- Hierarchy level: unit-group
- This page uses ISCO-08 as the English occupation reference layer while Thai TSCO label harmonization remains incomplete.
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Occupation hierarchy
- Major Group: 7 Craft and Related Trades Workers
- Sub Major Group: 75 Food Processing, Woodworking, Garment and Other Craft and Related Trades Workers
- Minor Group: 753 Garment and Related Trades Workers
- Unit Group: 7535 Pelt Dressers, Tanners and Fellmongers
Child groups
- No child groups are published under this code.
TSIC codes where this occupation is primary
- No primary TSIC mapping is published for this occupation yet.
TSIC codes where this occupation is related
- No related TSIC mapping is published for this occupation yet.
Definition
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.
Tasks include
Tasks include - (a) sorting and grading pelts, hides and skins according to colour, shading, size and density; (b) scraping particles of flesh, fat or protective tissue from skins or pelts to clean and soften them; (c) removing hair from skin or hides soaked in lime water; (d) preparing hides by curing them with salt; (e) removing long, coarse hair from pelts and trimming underlying hair to even length; (f) tanning and dressing pelts to improve lustre and beauty or restore natural appearance of pelts; (g) preparing bark and myrobalan liquor for treating hides or skins; (h) treating hides and skins in tanning solution to convert them into leather; (i) tinting or dyeing furs to enhance natural shades of fur; (j) removing wrinkles and setting grains on wet hide or skin; (k) dressing and applying dyes and stains to leather; (l) stretching and smoothing dressed pelts; (m) seasoning leather by applying chemical solution or oil evenly on surface by hand brush and allowing it to dry in open air.
Included occupations or child groups
Examples of the occupations classified here: - Fellmonger - Pelt grader - Tanner
Excluded occupations
Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Tanning machine operator - 8155
ISCO-88 correspondence
- 7441