"What is vegetable leather?"

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What is vegetable leather? And if a product is made from it, is that better or worse than standard leather?

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"leather still, but tanned differently"

by NanoNano on Nov 08 2007 (27 months ago)

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I've never heard the term before, but is this what you are looking for? Apparently the color is not stable in water, and the tanning process for it used vegetable based dyes:

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Vegetable-tanned leather is tanned using tannin (hence the name "tanning") and other ingredients found in vegetable matter, tree bark, and other such sources. It is supple and brown in color, with the exact shade depending on the mix of chemicals and the color of the skin. 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. In hot water, it will shrink drastically and partly gelatinise, becoming rigid and eventually brittle. Boiled leather is an example of this where the leather has been hardened by being immersed in hot water, or in boiled wax or similar substances. Historically, it was used as armour due to its hardness and light weight, but it has also been used for book binding. This is the only form of leather suitable for use in leather carving or stamping.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather

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Vegetable Leather

Vegetable Leather. A name given to a cloth woven of flax and hemp coated with a composition which gives it the appearance of leather.

http://chestofbooks.com/reference/Dictionary-of-Dry-Goods/Vegetable-Leather.html