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2. Tanning (leather) - Wikipedia

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   Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather. A tannery is the place where the skins are processed. Historically, vegetable based tanning used tannin , an acidic chemical compound derived from the bark of certain trees, in the production of leather.

3. Alligator leather - Wikipedia

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   Leather is created when an animal skin or hide is chemically treated in a process called tanning to preserve them for long term use as material for clothing, handbags, footwear, furniture, sports equipment and tools. [1] Alligator leather is also commonly used to create similar items as mentioned above. Early Alligator Skins

4. History of hide materials - Wikipedia

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   Humanity has used animal hides since the Paleolithic [clarification needed], for clothing as well as mobile shelters such as tipis and wigwams, and household items. Since ancient times, hides have also been used as a writing medium, in the form of parchment. Fur clothing was used by other hominids, at least the Neanderthals.

5. Conservation and restoration of leather objects - Wikipedia

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   Evidence from the hominid Pithecanthropoid shows the use of a coup-de-point tool for butchering and skinning animals. Their pelts were then used to create large tent shelters by spreading the pelts over wooden frameworks. For additional protection, skins were also believed to have been placed along the sides of shelters in rough bundles.

6. Leather - Wikipedia

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   Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay. The most common leathers come from cattle, sheep, goats, equine animals, buffalo, pigs and hogs, and aquatic animals such as seals and alligators. [1] [2]

7. Sheepskin - Wikipedia

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   Where the pelt is visible, better quality hide with minimal seed will be used. Seed contamination is where patches of scar tissue remain, resulting from a healed seed burrow wound during the animal's life. This scar tissue can fall out leaving small holes after the pelt is processed or it can remain in place leaving imperfections in the pelt ...