Bycast was originally made for the shoe industry and recently was adopted by the furniture industry.

At right is a casual style in a crushed unlined white leather.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Paperweight may be personalized on back while clay is leather hard.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

The cork is covered with thin leather or synthetic material.

The prima balalaika is played with the fingers, the secunda and alto either with the fingers or a plectrum, depending on the music being played, and the bass and contrabass ( equipped with extension legs that rest on the floor ) are played with leather plectrums.

Due to the large size of the contrabass's strings, it is not uncommon to see players using plectrums made from a leather shoe or boot heel.

The hide is used to make calfskin, or tanned into leather and called " Novillo ," Spanish for steer.

(" Cordwainer " is an archaic word for " A worker in cordwain or cordovan leather ; a shoemaker ", and a " smith " is " One who works in iron or other metals ; esp.

The camel's leather is also utilized in making kuppies, goblets, and expensive lampshades.

The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, may be used.

A guitar strap is a strip of fabric with a leather or synthetic leather piece on each end.

On a commercial scale, gelatin is made from by-products of the meat and leather industry.

More popular in the United States is the landau style, with a heavily-padded leather or ( later ) vinyl roof, and long blind rear quarters, similarly covered, and decorated with large metal S-shaped bars designed to resemble those used to lower the tops on some horse-drawn coaches.

The ball is spherical and must either be made of leather or a synthetic material.

Most of the time, one side is left as bare wood while the other side may be covered in leather or a softer material such as piano felt.

In Dan Neils 22 May 2010 review of the Aston Martin Rapide in the Wall Street Journal " The Aston's stitched leather interior is simply magnificent, like they rolled the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch into a stockyard.

A show halter is made from rolled leather and the lead attaches to form the chinpiece of the noseband.

The friction brake was adjusted according to a rower's weight to give an accurate appraisal of boat-moving ability ( drag on a boat is proportional to weight ). Inferior copies of Harrison's machine were produced in several countries utilising a smaller flywheel and leather straps-unfortunately the leather straps were sensitive to humidity, and the relatively large braking area made results far less accurate than Harrison's machine.

It is customary to wear white on Yom Kippur, especially for Kol Nidre, and leather shoes are not worn.

He views Rosenstiel as a liar who was paid for her story, whose " description of Hoover in drag engaging in sex with young blond boys in leather while desecrating the Bible is clearly a homophobic fantasy ”.

The one major difference between the javelin of the ancient games and the javelin of more modern times is a leather thong, called an ankyle that was wound around the middle of the shaft.

Split leather then has an artificial layer applied to the surface of the split and is embossed with a leather grain ( bycast leather ).

* 40 / 20 / 40 split bench with rear air vents and 8-way power driver's seat, 4-way manual front passenger seat ( available in both luxury cloth and leather trim ; rear air vents not available on LX Sport models )

* An iconic use of catsuits in popular media was on the British television show The Avengers, where Cathy Gale ( Honor Blackman ) and Emma Peel ( Diana Rigg ) wore tight leather catsuits ; leather was chosen because it lit well in studio lighting and did not split during action scenes.

Leather for chaps is tanned and dyed, and the hide is usually " split " so that the leather is supple and can be made into a garment that allows easy movement.

For horse shows, where fashions may change from year to year and durability is not as great a concern, lighter, synthetic materials such as ultrasuede and vinyl may be used, though leather suede or a smooth split predominates due to durability and proper fit.

The interior, with leather trim on the de luxe version and PVC on the standard model, has a split bench front seat arrangement, although individually adjustable, which if necessary could seat three people abreast.

A tawse consists of a strip of leather, with one end split into a number of tails.

The versions equipped LX and " Red Elephant " which cost € 15. 060 list, as in previous series were standard equipment for the major categories, including driver and passenger airbag, air conditioning, ABS, power steering, radio Blaupunkt navigation system with 6 speakers, split rear seat with headrests, the Alcantara interior Castiglio similar to previously used on the first set but less refined ( and expensive ), the display for outdoor temperature, electrically operated mirrors painted in body color ( red-colored titanium sull ' Elefantino, coordinated the search, to the helm station and instrument panel with red instead of green like the other versions ), central locking with remote control, power windows, seat and steering wheel Adjustable ( leather with red stitching on the Red Elephant ), fog lamps and alloy wheels with 185 / 60 R 14 tires for the LX and 195 / 50 R15 for the Red Elephant.

Joviality suffused Feathertop Ernie Cargill's voice as he reached behind him, pulling out a battered carpet bag, with leather handles.

My camp-made leather wallet, bulky with twisted, raised stitches around the edges, I stuffed with money I had been saving.

I even ferreted out the materials from which shields were made -- linden wood covered with leather -- so I'd get the light reflections accurate.

Because of the high polish possible with agate it has been used for centuries for leather burnishing tools.

In pre-Qin dynasty times, leather armour was made out of various animals, with more exotic ones such as the rhinoceros.

: Athene's garments and ægis were borrowed by the Greeks from the Libyan women, who are dressed in exactly the same way, except that their leather garments are fringed with thongs, not serpents.

All parkas were decorated with bird feathers, beard bristles of seal and sea-lion, beaks of sea parrots, bird claws, sea otter fur, dyed leather, and caribou hair sewn in the seams.

It was a belt generally worn over the shoulder, passing obliquely down to the side, typically made of leather, often ornamented with precious stones, metals or both.

Relying ... only on artistic and some literary sources because of the lack of archaeological examples, some believe that it was a heavy leather jacket with metal scales sewn onto it.

The disks were worn around the neck on a 38 " length of cotton cord, this was often replaced by the wearer with a leather bootlace.

Historically, the black leather female catsuit entered dominant fetish culture in the 1950s with the AtomAge magazine and its connections to fetish fashion designer John Sutcliffe.

Other common signifying footwear of the dominatrix are thigh-high boots, in leather or shiny PVC, which have long held a fetishistic status, along with the very high stiletto heel.

They tell him he wore a hairy coat with a leather belt and he instantly recognizes the description as Elijah the Tishbite.

The traditional Roman fasces consisted of a bundle of birch rods, tied together with a red leather ribbon into a cylinder, and often including a bronze axe ( or sometimes two ) amongst the rods, with the blade ( s ) on the side, projecting from the bundle.

There are many shopping centers especially in Pointe-à-Pitre where French perfumes, cosmetics & leather goods are sold along with local handicrafts as souvenirs.

The latter tend to be thicker and higher in the collar, and faced with more resilient materials, such as leather, or heavy canvas.