Faux real : genuine leather and 200 years of inspired fakes

Faux real : genuine leather and 200 years of inspired fakes / Robert Kanigel.

From Leatherette to Naugahyde, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake leather seem real. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kanigel, Robert (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
Edition:Paperback edition.
Series:EBL-Schweitzer
Subjects:
Leather, Artificial.
Leather, Artificial > History.
Leather substitutes > History.
Clothing trade > History.
imitation leather.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Fashion & Textile Industry.
Clothing trade
Leather, Artificial
Leather substitutes
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Material World
  • 2. "Let the Good Work Go On"
  • 3. Leather Alive
  • 4. Bizarre Effects
  • 5. One Nature
  • 6. Nothing Like Leather
  • 7. "All Shortcomings Have Been Eliminated"
  • 8. Top Grain
  • 9. What Nature Had in Mind
  • 10. Crocodile Dreams
  • 11. Vera Pelle
  • Sources and Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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