Different Kinds Of Leather
leather are differentiated by the way that the leather is
prepared. Animal hides can be prepared by vegetable tanning,
chrome tanning, boiling, and rawhide treatment. Each different
method of tanning results in a different kind of leather.



Leather that is vegetable tanned results in a leather that can
be supple and strong. The one major drawback of this kind of
leather is that is easily damaged by water. Exposure to water
will cause the leather to change colors, shrink, and become
stiff. Vegetable tanned leather gets its name due to the fact
that the various vegetable materials are used to tan the hides.



Chrome tanning is a kind of leather tanning tha...
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