White leather

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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A soft white Leather that was originally made by tawing skin with Alum and salt.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.

Synonyms and Related Terms

whitleather

Resources and Citations

  • 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