enamelled hide
A vegetable tanned cowhide with a flexible, water
repellent, multi-layered coating on the grain
side, built up in a manner somewhat similar to
that used for patent leather, and given a grain
pattern by means of embossing. At one time
enamelled hide was a cowhide tanned with bark and
finished with a mixture of Prussian blue (ferric
ferrocyanide (KFe(Fe(N 6 ))) and
linseed oil, dried in an oven and grained. (61 , 351 )
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