Vegetable-tanned leather is not stable in water ; it tends to discolor, and if left to soak and then dry it will shrink and become less supple, and harder.

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.

* Chrome-tanned leather, invented in 1858, is tanned using chromium sulfate and other salts of chromium.

* Aldehyde-tanned leather is tanned using glutaraldehyde or oxazolidine compounds.

** Rose tanned leather is a variation of vegetable oil tanning and brain tanning, where pure rose otto replaces the vegetable oil and emulsified oils.

* Synthetic-tanned leather is tanned using aromatic polymers such as the Novolac or Neradol types ( syntans, contraction for synthetic tannins ).

Purists argue that alum-tawed leather is technically not tanned, as the resulting material will rot in water.

It is distinct from leather in that parchment is limed but not tanned ; therefore, it is very reactive to changes in relative humidity and is not waterproof.

Their hides are tanned and used to make leather goods such as shoes and handbags ; crocodile meat is also considered a delicacy.

The hides which were tanned to make leather came from the United States, and as far away as Mexico, Argentina, and China.

This facility employed nearly sixty men and tanned high grade sole leather.

At least one manufacturer uses leather that has been tanned to provide a " tacky " grip in dry or wet conditions.

This covering is composed of the tanned hide of an animal ( with the hair removed ), though it is not uncommon in recent years for the leather to be synthetic.

# The Worshipful Company of Curriers ( tanned leather dressers )

Nor was there a mill, and leather was tanned with willow bark and dressed with sea shells due to the lack of lime.

Fresh tanned leather

The fine goatskins were tanned to create the fine, pale, leather known as " cordoban " or " cordovan ", from the Spanish town of Córdoba, where the process was developed.

The term cordovan leather applies to the product of both the tanned fronts and tanned butts, but is especially used in connection with the term galoshes, meaning the vamps or boot-fronts cut from the shell of the butt.

After being tanned, leather from the " front " is typically used in the fabrication of gloves, or blackened, to be used in the tops of shoes.

Zamorros are commonly are made of cowhide, either plain tanned leather or hides with the hair on.

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.

The fleece is tanned into the leather and the boot is assembled with the fleece on the inside.

The hides were used for buffalo-fur robes or were tanned, and the leather used for clothing, bags, shelter and other uses.

The new recruit arrived, said the writer Pierre Chany, with a skin tanned like an old leather saddle and creases to his face deep enough to be scars.