White leather

Description

A soft white leather that was originally made by tawing skin with alum and salt. More recent techniques use zirconium salts (zirconium sulfate, zirconium chloride) in a low pH solution to produce a white, water-resistant leather.

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whitleather

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Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982

Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

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