Hide (skin)

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A hide or skin is an animal skin treated for human use. The word "hide" is related to the German word Haut, which means skin. The industry defines hides as "skins" of large animals e.g. cow, buffalo; while skins refer to "skins" of smaller animals: goat, sheep, deer, pig, fish, alligator, snake, etc. Common commercial hides include

industrialized and large-scale. Various tannins
are used for this purpose. Hides are also used as processed chews for dogs or other pets.

The term "skin" is sometimes expanded to include

furs, which are harvested from various species, including cats, mustelids, and bears
.

History

Main article: History of hide materials
See also: Fur trade and Deerskin trade

Archaeologists believe that animal hides provided an important source of

drum heads in the 1950s, animal hides or metal
was used.

Parchment and vellum—a kind of paper made from processed skins—was introduced to the Eastern Mediterranean during the Iron Age, supposedly at Pergamon.

The

rawhide, gloves, parchment, and vellum among the principal items of England's commerce. A standardized shipload of leather (a last) consisted of 20 dicker of 10 cowhides. Rabbit and squirrel skins were traded and taxed in timbers of 40 hides each. Skins were also traded in binds of 32 or 33 skins each, while gloves were sold in dickers of 10 pair and dozens of 12 pair. The parchment and vellum was traded based on dozens of the original sheepskins from which they were prepared.[1][2]

Rare furs have been a notable

cellular phone cases. There are, however, many forms of artificial leather
and fur now available, which are usually cheaper alternatives.

Production

Fresh tanned leather
Finishgrading leather

Animal hides and skins are usually processed fresh or salted and tanned. Skins sometimes are stretched, dried, and tanned. Most hides are processed from domesticated animals; the most common wild animals used for

trapped
in the wild for their fur.

Use

Currently, hides are mainly used for

coats, gloves, leather goods and footwear. It is also used for bookbinding
.

Many traditional

African-American banjo was originally made from skins but is now often synthetic. "Hides" is used as a slang term to refer to a drumset.[3]

Scottish swords
.

Pig skins are processed as pork rinds.

Rabbit fur is popular for hats, coats, and glove linings.

Controversy

PETA's "I would rather go naked than wear fur" campaign, although more shocking and direct action, like damaging furs with red paint in imitation of blood
, has been toned down, like the "Ink, not Mink" campaign. Roadblocking and break-ins against meat/fur/leather industry is also used and extends to personal campaigns against such companies and also hunters which have included arson and assault in some cases.

See also

References

  1. ^ Ruffhead, Owen, ed. (1763a), The Statutes at Large, vol.  I: From Magna Charta to the End of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth. To which is prefixed, A Table of the Titles of all the Publick and Private Statutes during that Time, London: Mark Basket for the Crown, pp. 148–149. (in English) & (in Latin) & (in Norman)
  2. ^ Statutes of the Realm, vol. I, London: G. Eyre & A. Strahan, 1810, p. 204
  3. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.‎[full citation needed
    ]

External links

  • Media related to Hides at Wikimedia Commons
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