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2. Artificial leather - Wikipedia

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   The fabric can be made of natural or synthetic fiber which is then covered with a soft polyvinyl chloride (PVC) layer. Leatherette is used in bookbinding and was common on the casings of 20th century cameras. Cork leather is a natural-fiber alternative made from the bark of cork oak trees that has been compressed, similar to Presstoff.

3. Naugahyde - Wikipedia

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   Naugahyde is an American brand of artificial leather.Naugahyde is a composite knit fabric backing and expanded polyvinyl chloride (PVC) coating. It was developed by Byron A. Hunter, a senior chemist at the United States Rubber Company, and is now manufactured and sold by the corporate spin-off Uniroyal Engineered Products LLC.

4. Horween Leather Company - Wikipedia

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   About 85% of the leather at Horween Leather Company is made from cowhide. [2] The company's workers take raw hides, which arrive salted to prevent deterioration, trim them, and remove their hair with chemicals in an extremely large washing drum. The leather is then treated with salt and pickled for 24 hours, so that it reaches a desired pH level.

5. Bonded leather - Wikipedia

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   Bonded leather, also called reconstituted leather, composition leather [1] [2] or blended leather, is a term used for a manufactured upholstery material which contains animal hide. It is made as a layered structure of a fiber or paper backer covered with a layer of shredded leather fibers mixed with natural rubber or a polyurethane binder that ...

6. Wilsons Leather - Wikipedia

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   The company began as two separate leather apparel manufacturer-retailers: Berman Buckskin, founded in 1899, as Berman Brothers Fur, Wool and Hides founded by David, Ephraim and Alexander Berman, [3] and after World War II, reinvented as a fringed buckskin shirt and jacket retailer, [4] and Wilsons House of Suede, founded in late 1950 in Beverly Hills California by Jerry Wilson and known for ...

7. Buckskin (leather) - Wikipedia

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   Some leather sold as "buckskin" may now be sheepskin tanned with modern chromate tanning chemicals and dyed to resemble real buckskin. Traditionally, Native American Indians would scrape away the excessive fat clinging to the hide, and this would be followed by working the raw hide with the brain tissue of an animal. [ 1 ]