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2. Crocodile skin - Wikipedia

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   Crocodile skin is primarily used in the production of handbags and other luxury items such as shoes, belts, wallets, upholstery, and furniture. For these products, Freshwater, Saltwater, Nile and Caiman are used because of the superior quality of skin which when tanned has an aesthetic finish. [5] Not all these skins are valued the same.

3. Artificial leather - Wikipedia

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   Artificial leather, also called synthetic leather, is a material intended to substitute for leather in upholstery, clothing, footwear, and other uses where a leather-like finish is desired but the actual material is cost prohibitive or unsuitable due to practical or ethical concerns. Artificial leather is known under many names, including ...

4. 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.

5. Shagreen - Wikipedia

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   Shagreen. An antique round box covered with pearl ray shagreen, ground down to produce a smooth, puzzle-like surface. Look up shagreen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shagreen is a type of rawhide consisting of rough untanned skin, historically from a horse's or onager 's back, or from shark or ray.

6. Naugahyde - Wikipedia

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   Naugahyde. 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.

7. Ostrich leather - Wikipedia

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   Ostrich leather is regarded as an exotic leather product alongside crocodile, snake, lizard, camel, emu among others. Ostrich skins are the largest in terms of volumes traded in the global exotic skins market. The premium strain of ostrich is the "African Black", which originated on the ranches of South Africa through various forms of selective ...