ALLIGATOR LEATHER
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Written by tom
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Sunday, 09 March 2008 |
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A light, tough leather with platelike scales on the surface. It is made from the skins of large saurians, or lizards, of the order Crocodilia, abounding in muddy tropical streams.
The species Alligator mississippiensis inhabits the swamps of the southeastern United States. Alligator leather is valued for luggage, pocketbook, and shoe leathers. It is much imitated with embossed split sheepskins, but sheepskin is soft and easily scuffed. Lizard leather, from the java ring lizard, is another reptile leather valued for women’s shoes.
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