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All About Leather

Latigo & Harness Leathers are treated with waxes and oils to resist water and limit stretching. Garment leather is not just from cows, it includes deerskin, pigskin, goatskin, sheepskin, suede/splits, and other lightweight leathers. Upholstery leather is heavier weight and may require a commercial machine. Rawhide is not tanned, and has excellent properties for forming. It is not the leather your shoelaces are made from. Vegetable tanned leather is the only type of leather that will absorb water enough to stamp or carve.

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  1. Allowance Measurement For Moulding Leather

    By facok,   
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  2. Wet Moulding Leather

    By facok,   
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  3. Springfield Leather Upholstery Leather Question...

    By Hi Im Joe,
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  4. Chromexcel From Springfield

    By mrtreat32,
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  5. Chromexcel Question.

    By Rayban,
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  6. How Does Wicket & Craig Tooling Compare To Hermann Oak Tooling?

    By JanC,
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  7. What Type Of Leather Is Stiff?

    By DavidL,
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  8. Wet-Blue Leather

    By Handstitched,
    • 2 replies
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  9. What Kind Of Leather Is This?

    By LeatherWerks,
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  10. Need Advice On Oiled Leather

    By DavidL,
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  11. Thickness After Dying

    By reuben cogburn,
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  12. Best Characteristics And Type Of Leather Grades

    By DavidL,
    • 10 replies
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  13. How Long Will Leather Last Until It Starts Going Bad.

    By DavidL,
    • 2 replies
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  14. Does Hermann Oak Not Take Orders?

    By DavidL,
    • 10 replies
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  15. Terminology And Tannage Types

    By Cletus2014,
    • 8 replies
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  16. Terminology And Tannage Types

    By Cletus2014,
    • 10 replies
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  17. Leather Smell

    By deborah195412,
    • 1 reply
    • 1,287 views

  18. Needing Some Advice Picking Leather

    By Vikti,
    • 8 replies
    • 1,775 views

  19. Mission Grain Pigskin?

    By mrtreat32,
    • 4 replies
    • 3,095 views

  20. Leather Flesh Side Grid Patterned

    By DavidL,
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  21. Help Me Identify And Explain This Leather.

    By klickitat,
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  22. English Saddle Billets

    By LesWurse,
    • 2 replies
    • 1,087 views

  23. Restoring Old Leather

    By Tinkerton,
    • 3 replies
    • 1,612 views

  24. Bullet Proof Straps - Latigo Or Harness And Best Way To Splice.

    By BDAZ,   
    • 14 replies
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  25. Something Like Sole Leather But Thinner?

    By AlexLeather,
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