Leather Industry Glossary - A collection of frequently used terms, abbreviations and jargons used in the Leather Industry with their definition and meanings.

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In the hair; in the wool; in the raw

A group of more or less equivalent terms used to describe stock that has not yet undergone any of the processes of leather manufacture.

In the rough; in the crust; in the white; in the blue

A group of approximately equivalent terms used to describe stock which has been tanned,, but not finished. In the rough or rough tanned is most commonly applied to vegetable tanned cattle hide leathers; in the crust and in the white to vegetable, alum or formaldehyde tanned sheepskins and lambskins; and in the blue to chrome tanned skins particularly goatskins. The use of the term in the white needs to be distinguished from that mentioned in the following definition. See also Wet White and Wet Blue.

In the white; in the pickle

Two roughly equivalent terms used to describe stock which has undergone the processes preliminary to tanning, but has not been actually tanned. Historically in the pickle is restricted to sheepskins and lambskins; in the white, in this sense, is used for practically all other classes of hides and skins.

Japanning

A process of preparing the oil for, and the process of, manufacturing patent leather.

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