Oiling is a process whereby leather is hand coated (usually by brush or tampon) with either a raw (un-emulsified) oil or a combination of raw oil, blended with emulsified oils and a penetrating aid. Hand oils can include fragrant oils that help with the smell associated with the leather, e.g., Pine Oil. Hand oils commonly consist of sulfated vegetable oils, e.g. sulfated castor oil.
Oiling provides the leather with lubrication and allows it to flex repeatedly without cracking. Leather fibres that are dry and un-lubricated break very easily. Oiling does impart colour and an element of water resistance. Oiling would normally be performed on full grain aniline leathers. The most common type of leather oiled is vegetable tanned leather.
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Leather
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- Aniline
- Bicast
- Boiled
- Bonded
- Buckskin
- Braintanned
- Chamois
- Cordovan
- Corinthian
- Law leather
- Morocco
- Nappa
- Nubuck
- Ostrich
- Patent
- Rawhide
- Sealskin
- Shagreen
- Suede
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| Leather producers |
- Alligator
- Bison
- Cattle
- Goat
- Hog
- Kangaroo
- Ostrich
- Seal
- Sheep
- Yak
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| Processes |
- Unhairing
- Deliming
- Liming
- Oiling
- Tanning
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| Fabrication |
- Leather carving
- Leather crafting
- British Museum leather dressing
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| Substitutes |
- Alcantara
- Artificial leather
- Naugahyde
- Poromeric
- Presstoff
- Ultrasuede
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| Leather museums |
- German Leather Museum
- Igualada Leather Museum
- Walsall Leather Museum
- Leather Archives and Museum
- British Museum leather dressing
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| Companies |
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| Related |
- History of hide materials
- History of leather gloves in fiction
- Leather Archives and Museum
- Leather skirt
- Leather subculture
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