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GLOVING KID [3 records]

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Record 1 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Leather Industry
  • Types of Skins and Hides (Leather Ind.)
DEF

Upper leather made from kid or goatskin by a full chrome tanning process and given a smooth, bright, glossy finish.

OBS

When applied to gloving leather a synonym of Gloving kid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie du cuir
  • Sortes de peaux (Ind. du cuir)
DEF

Peau à dessus de chèvre ou de chevreau, tannée au chrome (en Allemagne et en France par un procédé à deux bains) et à laquelle on a donné par satinage un finissage lisse, brillant et lustré. En ganterie, synonyme de «chevreau ganterie».

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Leather Industry
  • Types of Skins and Hides (Leather Ind.)
DEF

Term generally applied in the United States to denote the skins of South American hair sheep and gloving and shoe upper leather made therefrom, but also applied to the skins of similar hair sheep from other regions, e. g. East and West Africa, and leathers made therefrom. The leather may be finished on the flesh side for suede or on the grain side, which is fine and smooth resembling that of kid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie du cuir
  • Sortes de peaux (Ind. du cuir)
DEF

Terme généralement employé aux États-Unis pour indiquer les peaux de moutons lainés d'Amérique du Sud et les peaux à dessus de chaussures et à ganterie provenant de ces sortes. Également utilisé pour les peaux de semblables moutons à poils de chèvres provenant d'autres régions, par exemple d'Afrique Occidentale ou Orientale et les peaux finies en provenant. La peau peut être finie sur chair pour le suède ou sur fleur, celle-ci étant fine et lisse, ressemblant à celle du chevreau.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Leather Industry
  • Leather Bags, Baggage and Satchels
DEF

A soft grain gloving leather, capable of being considerably stretched without springing back.

CONT

In the strict sense made from kid skin, but is in the U.K. sometimes applied to leather made from lambskin. The skin is tawed, or tawed and subsequently chrome tanned or simply chrome tanned.

OBS

gloving kid; glacé kid : terms standardized by the British Standards Institution(BSI).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie du cuir
  • Maroquinerie et malleterie
DEF

Peau pour ganterie, à fleur lisse, souple et douée d'un prêtant considérable sans rétractibilité, souvent appelée chevreau glacé, provient d'un chevreau dans son sens strict; mais au Royaume-Uni s'applique parfois à une peau provenant d'un agneau. La peau est mégie ou mégie suivie d'un tannage au chrome ou tannée simplement au chrome.

Spanish

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