page_title: Bark mill
section_title: in Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Bark mill / Known examples of bark mills / in Australia
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context_page_description: Bark mills, also known as Catskill’s mills, were water, steam, horse, ox or wind-powered edge mills used to process the bark, roots, and branches of various tree species into a fine powder known as tanbark, used for tanning leather. This powdering allowed the tannin to be extracted more efficiently from its woody source material. A barker would strip the bark from trees so that it might be ground in such mills, and the dried bark was often stored in bark houses.
context_section_description: The Swansea, Tasmania bark Mill processed black wattle bark in colonial times and is now a combined museum.
caption: Bishop's Bark Mill (off York Street), Launceston (image from the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office - TAHO)
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