Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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aniline leather

A hide or skin that has been tanned with a vegetable material and then colored either by immersion in a dyebath or by staining, and has not been coated or pigmented. Leather so colored has a depth of coloring said to be superior to pigment coloration. (351 )




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