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pipey leather [1 record]

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Record 1 1988-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Preparation of Leather and Leather Articles
DEF

Leather whose grain surface forms coarse, sharp and loose wrinkles, displeasing to the eye, when it is bent grain inward.

CONT

Fig. 81 [shows a cross-section] in which the bacterial damage has been great in the area of the sweat glands, causing the leather to be loose and pipey.

OBS

pipey grain: an extremely loose grain on finished leather characterized by blister like formations on the surface

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préparation des cuirs et des objets en cuir

Spanish

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