Leather

Leather is a product produced in a Cattle Ranch. It can be used as a material for other products.
==History==
Around 1880 BC, tanneries popped up like mushrooms all over ancient Egypt. This took place under the rule of Pharaoh Sesostris III. To get a special smooth kind of leather, the skin was worked with grease, whereas all other leather types were cooked with acacia husks. Around 1050, real tanning was invented. To produce the tanning acid, the Egyptians made a substance from plant sap and fruit such as periploca, alder, pomegranate, oak, etc. Untanned hides rotted very quickly and weren't much use at all. For tanning a hide, people needed special knives, scrapers, reamers and rivets that they constructed themselves.
==Did You Know That?==
At the turn of the century, leather was becoming more and more fashionable. Linen and cotton were still popular but tanneries were also sprouting up all over place due to the boom in cattle-breeding. On the one hand, the fashionable Wild West look required a lot of leather. On the other hand, Parisian fashion designers were experimenting with new fabrics.
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