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Baby Calf (Leather)

Calfskin leather made from small, light-weight skins with a finely boarded grain surface. The finish is glossy and is produced by glazing, ironing or embossing.
Back Portion of the hide obtained by cutting longitudinally along the backbone, then trimming off head and belly, leaving a ?bend? and shoulder.
Bag hide Leather embossed with a grain pattern, usually in oat grain. Produced from cattle hide and vegetable tanned. Usually split to a suitable thickness and sometimes hand or machine boarded.
Bark tanned Leather that has been vegetable tanned, using tannins obtained from the bark of trees.
Basil Unsplit pelt vegetable tanned, usually of a woolled sheepskin.
Beaver lamb Sheep or lambskin with short fine wool, which has been dressed with the wool on, dyed and finished by a process giving a weather-resistant straightness and brightness to the wool. See Shearling.
Bellows hide Curried, flexible and air-proof leather made from split hide.
Belly Hide from the under side and the upper part of the legs of the animal.
Belly grain The tanned outer (hair or grain) layer split from the under side of the animal. Usually less valuable than other areas.
Belly middle The middle part of a cattle hide belly.
Belt leather Leather used for waist belts. Often specially treated on the flesh side to eliminate the need of a lining.
Belting butt Specially tanned, curried and dressed butt portion of cattle hide from which strong, flexible leather -with minimum stretch- is produced, suitable for the making of transmission belt.
Belting lace Chrome tanned back, about 2.5mm thick, heavily dressed with natural grease. Suitable for cutting into strips for the purpose of joining transmission belting.
Bend Portion of the hide obtained by dividing a cattle hide butt along the line of the backbone.
Boarded leather Soft leather in which the surface has been lightly creased by folding grain to grain. Working then the fold across the leather to and forth by hand or using a boarding machine. See Box calf, Box side, Morocco, Willow calf, Willow side.
Bottom leather All types of leather used for the bottoming of footwear. For example: outsole leather, mid-sole leather, welting belly, welting shoulder, flexible split.
Box calf Smooth or boarded calf leather, usually full chrome tanned.
Box side Full chrome, combination or synthetic tanned leather made from cattle hide sides, black or coloured, smooth or boarded. See Willow side.
Bridle Leather Strong, flexible leather made from ox or cow hide bearing a uniform thickness and a plain finish, vegetable tanned and curried.
Brushed pigskin Pigskin leather in which the wearing surface has been finished with a velvet-like nap.
Buck Identical to buckskin. In U.K., suede shoe upper leather dressed and finished in the same way as buckskin but not made from buckskin.
Buckskin Suede leather made from deerskin having the outer grain removed, usually by frizing. Generally tanned with fish oil or formaldehyde or a combination of both. May be finished on the flesh or the frized grain side.
Buff calf Leather made from the skin of a young or immature buffalo.
Buff leather Flexible, dry leather finished with a velvet-like nap on the grain side and a cream or white surface. Made from cattle hide which has been oil tanned.
Buffalo Leather made from the hide of buffalo cattle.
Buffed leather Leather from which the grain has been removed by an abrasive or bladed cylinder. In the case of upholstery leather the buffing process is described as ?hand buffed?.
Buffing Process of removing the grain layer of leather from a cattle hide mechanically with an appropriate abrasive paper. Giving leather a nap or suede effect.
Butt The remaining part of the hide, after the belly and shoulder have been trimmed off.
Butt split The under layer split from the butt of a cattle hide.

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