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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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   In order for skins to be turned into leather, they must go through a process known as tanning to stabilize the collagen for the duration of the manufacture. When describing a material as leather, this includes the animal pelts, as well as all of the materials used in the manufacturing process.

6. Buckskin (leather) - Wikipedia

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   Buckskin is the soft, pliable, porous preserved hide of an animal – usually deer – tanned in the same way as deerskin clothing worn by Native Americans. Some leather sold as "buckskin" may now be sheepskin tanned with modern chromate tanning chemicals and dyed to resemble real buckskin.

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8. Crocodile skin - Wikipedia

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   Crocodile leather is the processed hide of one of 23 crocodile species in the world. [1] Crocodile leather is an exotic leather which as a group, makes up less than 1% of the world's leather production. [2]

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