Author: Julius Gabriel SchnitzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leather industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
American Leather in Foreign Markets
Author: Julius Gabriel SchnitzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leather industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Putting on the Dog
Author: Melissa KwasnyPublisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595348654
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In Putting on the Dog, Melissa Kwasny explores the age-old relationship between humans and the animals that have provided us with our clothing: leather, wool, silk, feathers, pearls, and fur. From silkworms grown on plantations in Japan and mink farms off Denmark’s western coast to pearl beds in the Sea of Cortés, Kwasny offers firsthand accounts of traditions and manufacturing methods—aboriginal to modern—and descriptions of the marvel and miracle of the clothing itself. What emerges is a fresh look at the cultural history of fashion. Kwasny travels the globe to visit both large-scale industrial manufacturers and community-based, often subsistence production by people who have spent their lives working with animals—farmers, ranchers, tanners, weavers, shepherds, and artisans. She examines historical rates of consumption and efforts to move toward sustainability, all while considering animal welfare, worker safety, environmental health, product accountability, and respect for indigenous knowledge and practice. At its heart, Putting on the Dog demonstrates how what we choose to wear represents one of our most profound engagements with the natural world.
Leather Processing & Tanning Technology Handbook
Author: NIIR Board of Consultants EngineersPublisher: NIIR PROJECT CONSULTANCY SERVICES
ISBN: 8190568590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Leather Industry has been one of the traditional industries operating at present. The hides and skins of animals are the source of leather and preserving hides and tanning them into leather has become an important industry. Leather-making is now a scientifically based industry, but still retains some of the charm and mystery of the original craft. Animal skin that has been processed to retain its flexibility, toughness, and waterproof nature is known as leather. "Leather tanning" is a general term for the numerous processing steps involved in converting animal hides or skins into finished leather. Tanning is the final process in turning hides and skins into leather. Tanning involves a complex combination of mechanical and chemical processes. The heart of the process is the tanning operation itself in which organic or inorganic materials become chemically bound to the protein structure of the hide and preserve it from deterioration. The main chemical processes carried out by the tanner are the unhairing, liming, tanning, neutralizing and dyeing. This indispensable handbook provides a detailed insight into the leather industry, leather processing and tanning technology with manufacturing of different forms of leather products. The book contains the manufacturing process of different forms and type of leather products like box and willow sides, glazed kid, sole leather, lace leather, belting and bag leather, chamois leather, upholstery leather, antique leather, light and fancy leather, etc. to name a few. This book will be very helpful to its readers, upcoming entrepreneurs, scientists, existing industries, technical institutions, technocrats, etc.
The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association
Author: American Leather Chemists AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leather
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
U.S. Industrial Outlook
Author: Textile Auxiliaries And Chemicals With Processes & Formulations
Author: Eiri BoardPublisher: Engineers India Research In
ISBN: 8186732934
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Textile Auxiliaries And Chemicals With Processes And Formulations Isbn 81-86732-93-4 Rs. 950/- Or Us $ 100/- The Book Covers Classificat Ions And Chemistry, Manufacturing Processes Of Textile Auxiliaries, Commercial Textile Auxiliaries, Formulations Of Textile Auxiliaries, Classification Of Surfactants, Details Of Raw Materials, Anionic Surfactants, Cationic Surfactants, Non-Ionic Surfactants, Miscellaneous Important Compounds, Detergent Paste (Textile Grade), Dispersant For Textiles, Leveling And Dispersing Agent, Non-Ionic Surfactants Wetting Agents, Pigment Emulsion For Textiles, Pigments Binders For Textile Printing, Poly Vinyl Acetate Emulsion, Rosin Sizing Agent, Silicone Emulsion, Silk Sizing Liquid (Water Soluble), Softeners (Cationic, An-Ionic And Non-Ionic), Textile And Finishing Agents, Auxiliaries, Textile Chemicals, Textile Printing Paste.
Million-dollar Markets for American Leather ...
Author: Julius Gabriel SchnitzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leather industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
New England Shoe and Leather Industry
Author: U.S. Industrial Outlook for ... Industries with Projections for ...
Author: Faux Real
Author: Robert KanigelPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205596
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
What makes genuine leather genuine? What makes real things real? In an age of virtual reality, veneers, synthetics, plastics, fakes, and knockoffs, it's hard to know. Over the centuries, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake things seem real. As early as the fourteenth century, fabric was treated with special oils to make it resemble leather. In the 1870s came Leatherette, a new bookbinding material. The twentieth century gave us Fabrikoid, Naugahyde, Corfam, and Ultrasuede. Each claims to transcend leather's limitations, to do better than nature itself—or at least to convince consumers that it does. Perhaps more than any other natural material, leather stands for the authentic and the genuine. Its animal roots etched in its pores and in the swirls of its grain, leather serves as cultural shorthand for the virtues of the real over the synthetic, the original over the copy, the luxurious over the shoddy and second-rate. From formica, vinyl siding, and particle board to cubic zirconium, knockoff designer bags, and genetically altered foods, inspired fakes of every description fly the polyester pennant of a brave new man-made world. Each represents a journey of scientific, technical, and entrepreneurial innovation. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative.