The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, with the hair removed, and tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
To beat, as with a thong of leather.
The skin of an animal, with the hair removed, prepared for use by tanning or a similar process designed to preserve it against decay and make it pliable or supple when dry.
Leather bindings may be identified as morocco (or goatskin), calf (or vellum), sheep, or pigskin; each has its own historic background and connotations. The generic term “leather” is usually used if the specific animal skin can't be identified.
Any hide or skin that has been tanned.
A hide that has been tanned to render it resistant to decay.
Has subcategories, including genuine (top-grain or full grain leather from the outermost layer of hide); splits (underlayers split off from the top grain, usually having a surface treatment to simulate color and grain of genuine leather), and processed leather (one type of skin or hide made to resemble another type usually called "bonded leather" or "laminated leather").
Preparation of animal skins and hides using vegetable extracts to preserve and alter the structure of the skin. Types and uses: Furs - bedding, floor covering, clothing Raw-hide thonging, armour Sheet - buckets, bags, shoes, clothes.
The skin of an animal, typically with the hair removed and tanned for use, the same as the hide.
For the avoidance of all ambiguities and doubts, which may and do grow upon the definition and interpretation of this word leather, it is enacted, and declared by these presents, that the hides and skins of ox, steer, bull, cow, calf, deer, red and fallow, goats and sheep being tanned or tawed, and every salt hide is, shall be, and ever hath been reputed and taken for leather. Act of Parliament. UK year 1604. (2)
The skin of animals prepared for use by tanning or a similar process. See also Alum tawed leather; Parchment and vellum; Tanning.
an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning
A hide or skin that has been tanned into a non-perishable material.
A generic term for all hides and skins which have been tanned and finished.
Animal skin dressed for use in clothing.
A generic term used for all kinds of tanned animal hides or skins.
material made from the cured skin of animals is a popular sexual fetish and may combine some natural appeal with the social associations of particularly black leather with power and masculinity. Certainly it often co-occurs with SM interests and was the dress code and de facto uniform of the influential gay male SM community that developed in the US from the 1960s, who came to be known as leathermen.
The hide of an animal used in home furnishings. Find leather furniture.
Hide or skin which still retains its original fibrous structure more or less intact, and which has been treated so as to be imputrescible even after exposure to water. The hair or wool may or may not have been removed. Certain skins, similarly treated or dressed, and without the hair removed, are termed "fur". Note: No product is described correctly as "leather" if its manufacture involves breaking down the original skin structure into fibres, powder or other fragments by chemical or mechanical methods and reconstituting these fragments into sheets or other forms.
Any animal skin that is tanned with its hair follicles removed.
A smoky, sweet, animal odor crafted from the perfumer's palette. It is warm and persistent.
A general term for hide or skin with its original fibrous structure more or less intact,tanned to be imputrescible. The hair or wool may or may not have been removed.Leather is also made from hide or skin which has been split into layers or segments before or after tanning,but if the tanned hide or skin is disintegrated mechanically and/or chemically into fibrous particles,small pieces or powders and then,with or without the combination of a binding agent is made into sheets or forms, are not leather.
Generic terms for all hides that have been tanned to a non-perishable state.
The pelt of an animal which has been transformed by tanning into a non-putrescible, useful material.
A tanned hide or skin of an animal that has undergone a process to become non-perishable.
An animal skin tanned or dressed for use. Full Top Grain is considered the highest quality hide.
Pungent animal smokiness characteristic of the ingredients used in the tanning process of leathers. Achieved in perfumery with castoreum, Labdanum, phenols and quinolenes.
Leather is a material created through the tanning of hides, pelts and skins of animals, primarily cows.