Surface Coating
For some leathers a surface coating is applied. Tanners refer to this as finishing. Finishing operations may include:
- oiling
- brushing
- padding
- impregnation
- buffing
- spraying
- roller coating
- curtain coating
- polishing
- plating
- embossing
- ironing
- combing (hair-on)
- glazing
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Famous quotes containing the words surface and/or coating:
“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this: in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”
—James Mcneill Whistler (1834–1903)
“The world is eaten up by boredom.... You can’t see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn’t even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always “on the go.””
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)