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How Can a Leather Jacket Complete Your Style

By Frederic E. Pray


Leather jackets are very versatile pieces of clothing. Leather jackets mostly are created from cows hide leftover from your meat packing market place, even though some leather is made of other animals such as goatskins, calfskin's, sheepskins and lambskins. Leather jackets are generally brown, gray or black which is the most widely used color. They are available in different designs for men, women and children such as solid leather jacket, bomber jacket, trench coat and motorcycle jacket.

Before a jacket can be made the animal skin has to go through a process called tanning. This procedure preserves its physical attributes, like strength, flexibility and resilience. It also makes it resistant to decomposition or bacterial decay when wet. There are two means of sun tanning referred to as nutrient or chrome and vegetable.

The first step is to cure your skin layer by salting or drying quickly after the skin is taken off. One of the most commonly used technique is salt curing, with this particular approach the skins are put in large vats known as raceways that contains anti-bacterial and salt brine solution. Right after about sixteen hours the skins are fully penetrated by the salt and then eliminated.

Then the cured skins are drenched in water for 2 to seven days to eliminate salt, blood and dirt and to replace moisture. Once stripped away from the water the flesh is robotically removed from the inner surface area, then the skins are submerged in a treatment of lime, water and sodium sulfide for one to 9 days to remove the hair. The hair will be easily taken off by a equipment. After it is done the skins are immersed in a weak solution of acid to minimize the puffiness caused by the lime. At the same time the skins are cured with a bating substance consisting of enzymes to make them soft and versatile.

Now the tanning process begins known as chrome sun tanning which allows for further extend when compared with vegetable tanning using the salt substance of chromium. The skins are pickled in a treatment of acid and sodium to prepare them for chrome tanning and then submerged in a chromium sulfate solution in a rotating drum that tumbles the skins.

Leathers are finished by coating the outer lining with a finishing substance and by brushing them in a rotating brush coated cylinder. The grain surface area is buffed or sandpapered to fix flaws. Buffing increases the nap that produces leather called suede. Soft leather is seasoned with waxes, dyes and pigments which is used moderately to avoid a colored look. After dying the leather is dried in a stretched condition on punctured steel frames and conveyed by means of tunnels of heat and humidity.




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