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Kidskin or kid leather is a type of soft, thin leather that is traditionally used for gloves (hence the phrase 'kid gloves,' used since at least 1888 as a metaphor for careful handling). [1] It is widely used for other fashion purposes such as footwear and clothing.
Kidskin, used for gloves, shoes and other accessories, is traditionally goatskin, although other leathers such as sheep and kangaroo can be used to make kid. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Tanned leather from goatskin is considered extremely durable and is commonly used to make rugs (for example in Indonesia) and carpet binding .
The most expensive full-length gloves are custom-made of kidskin. Many other types of leather , most usually soft varieties of cowhide , are used in making full-length gloves; patent leather and suede are especially popular as alternatives to kidskin, and are often more affordable than kidskin.
Kid Gloves, a British production duo consisting of Roy Kerr and Anu Pillai; Kid Gloves, a 1992 album by Larry Carlton "Kid Gloves", by Doomtree from the 2008 album Doomtree ...
The earliest Courrèges boots were made of leather, such as kidskin or patent leather, [4] but many of the subsequent versions and copies were made in PVC, vinyl, and other plastics. [ 10 ] Go-go boots as worn in London in 1969/1970
A tanning worker in Morocco. The leather manufacturing process are the operations taken to create leather from hides.The procedure is divided into three sub-processes: preparatory stages, tanning, and crusting.
A hide or skin is an animal skin treated for human use. The word "hide" is related to the German word Haut, which means skin.The industry defines hides as "skins" of large animals e.g. cow, buffalo; while skins refer to "skins" of smaller animals: goat, sheep, deer, pig, fish, alligator, snake, etc. Common commercial hides include leather from cattle and other livestock animals, buckskin ...
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