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Record 1 2000-05-16

English

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

In general, a descriptive term applied to a leather having a characteristic drawn-grain pattern, originally produced by an astringent tannage, but now produced by hand or machine boarding of vegetable or semichrome tanned goatskins and sheepskins, or vegetable tanned sealskin.

CONT

The traditional "levant" used in bookbinding is a vegetable tanned goatskin. When the pattern is produced by embossing, as it frequently is, it is called "levant grain." The original levant, which during the past one hundred years or so was considered to be the finest of the morocco family, was always goatskin obtained from the Near East. In recent years, however, the best levant has been tanned in the northern and northwestern areas of Africa and usually finished in France. Today the great bulk of genuine "levant" goatskin comes from South Africa and is called "cape levant".

Key term(s)
  • levant grain
  • cape levant

French

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

Cuir qui présente un grain crispé anciennement formé par un tannage très astringent, mais aujourd'hui formé par liégeage à la main ou à la machine sur des peaux de chèvre, de mouton de tannage végétal ou semi-chrome et de phoque de tannage végétal.

OBS

La peau est désignée «grain levant» lorsque le crispage est produit par impression.

Key term(s)
  • grain levant

Spanish

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