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2. Deerskin trade - Wikipedia

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   The deerskin trade between Colonial Americans, Europeans, and Native Americans was an important trading relationship between Europeans and Native Americans, particularly in the southeastern colonies, engaging the Catawba, Shawnee, Cherokee, Muscogee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw peoples.

3. Crocodile skin - Wikipedia

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   Crocodile leather is an exotic leather which as a group, makes up less than 1% of the world's leather production. [2] It is rare compared to other hides such as sheep or cow and requires high levels of craftsmanship to prepare it for use in the consumer industry. [ 3 ]

4. History of hide materials - Wikipedia

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   Rawhide is a simple hide product, that turns stiff. It was formerly used for binding pieces of wood together. Today it is mostly found in drum skins. Tanning of hides to manufacture leather was invented during the Paleolithic. Parchment for use in writing was introduced during the Bronze Age and later refined into vellum, before paper became ...

5. Ostrich leather - Wikipedia

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   Ostrich leather is the result of tanning skins taken from African ostriches farmed for their feathers, skin and meat. The leather is distinctive for its pattern of vacant quill follicles , forming bumps ranged across a smooth field in varying densities.

6. Hide (skin) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. 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.