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animal skin you wear with pride and never call its original owner by name
means Animal hide that's been tanned and treated so it won't rot, becoming a tough, flexible material used for shoes, bags, jackets, and the like.
from From Old English 'lether,' descending from a Proto-Germanic root that gives us German 'Leder' and Dutch 'leer.' Beyond that, scholars trace it to a possible Proto-Indo-European source also lurking in the Celtic languages — Old Irish 'lethar,' Welsh 'lledr' — which has made some wonder whether the word passed between Celtic and Germanic neighbours long ago. The deeper origin is genuinely murky, but the thing itself is as old as the first hunter who realized a dead beast's skin could outlast the beast.
- oldest shoe
- 5,500-year-old leather shoe found in Armenian cave
- tanning trick
- brain tissue once used to soften hides naturally
- smell chemistry
- that scent is largely tanning chemicals, not skin
- bookbinding
- some old books bound in human skin exist
- durability
- properly cared, it outlives the wearer easily
italian leather from tuscany — region producing tanned leather since medieval times, 80% of italian leather exports
cordovan leather — shell cordovan from horse hindquarters, only produced in few tanneries like horween in chicago
leather goods in florence — centuries-old leather crafting tradition, thousands of artisans in oltrarno district