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• hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think, that while it’s still on the body, it’s called skin. When You make a couch out of it it’s leather. Where hide comes in, I have no idea. But in Poland we use the same word for skin, leather and vegetable peels.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When you skin an animal, you have two choices. Cure it, or tan it. If you just let the skin be, it will rot. You can cure it by coating it in oil, fat, or salt. That will turn into a cured hide which can then be used like other fabrics. Alternatively you can soak the skin in a solution of quicklime (ground limestone dissolved in water.) Then you soak it in a barrel of weak tannin, followed by strong tannin. That becomes leather. There’s a few more details, but that’s the gist.

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  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hide is just leather with the hair still on it I think (not sure).

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Two entirely different processes. Hides are skins cured with oil, fat, or salt to prevent them from rotting. Leather is a skin that gets soaked in quicklime, scraped, soaked in weak tannin, and finally soaked in strong tanning ro turn the skin into leather.

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      • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thanks! I’m saving this for the imminent apocalypse so I can make my Mad Max armor!

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      • Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But when does the piss come into play? I always heard that tanning leather involves piss.

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  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    first you need to pee on it to show dominance, then you can call it leather

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bruh Polish wilding out here again. What is the word something like koža?

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      ?

      we dont have ‘ž’

      the word for skin/peel/leather is “skóra”

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Leather futures o.o

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• chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Much in the same way that a pickle (gherkin) is a cucumber. But they ain’t equivalent

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