Human leather

[nq:1]Is it still called "leather" if the skin involved is from a human?[/nq]
I suppose one would have to check out Ilse Koch's lamp-shade catalog.

[nq:1]Is it still called "leather" if the skin involved is from a human?[/nq]
The less-than-charming character in the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre is called "Leather Face" because he has masks on made of human skin. So at least the screenplay writers of that movie thought it OK.

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[nq:1]Is it still called "leather" if the skin involved is from a human?[/nq]
Leather is the general term with subtypes cowskin, pigskin, deerskin, horsehide, etc. Following that paradigm, I would guess that humanskin (one word?) or humanhide (alliterative like horsehide) would be a kind of leather.

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[nq:1]Is it still called "leather" if the skin involved is from a human?[/nq]
Brittanica 1911:
"Leather: .. an imputrescible substance prepared from the hides or skins of living creatures, both cold and warm blooded, by chemical and mechanical treatment. Skins in the raw and natural- moist state are readily putrescible, and are easily disintegrated by bacterial or chemical action, and if d

[nq:2]Is it still called "leather" if the skin involved is from a human?[/nq]
[nq:1]I suppose one would have to check out Ilse Koch's lamp-shade catalog.[/nq]
Never heard of that catalog or person. Oh, but thanks to you and to Google, I now understand the reference.
However, (as someone mentions the Texas Chain-saw Massacre) during the period after the discovery of the ghoulish content

[nq:2]I suppose one would have to check out Ilse Koch's lamp-shade catalog.[/nq]
[nq:1]Never heard of that catalog or person. Oh, but thanks to you and to Google, I now understand the reference. ... cannibalism, tanning of the victims, skins, and the like. And that discovery was the source material for the movie, Psycho.[/nq]
Nitpick: Psycho is based on a book with a character based on Ed

[nq:2]Is it still called "leather" if the skin involved is from a human?[/nq]
[nq:1]Brittanica 1911: "Leather: .. an imputrescible substance prepared from the hides or skins of living creatures, both cold and warm blooded, by chemical and mechanical treatment.[/nq]
Ah! Thanks.

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On 17 Jan 2004 11:18:19 -0800, the renowned (Email Removed) (Anna Skipka) wrote, in part:
[nq:2]Is it still called "leather" if the skin involved is from a human?[/nq]
[nq:1]Brittanica 1911: "Leather: .. an imputrescible substance prepared.."[/nq]
"Imputrescible"- now there's an adjective that deserves more use. As well as applying to many kinds of modern food substances, it might be u

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[nq:1]"Leather is made by three processes or with three classes of substances. Thus we have (i) tanned leather, in which ... skins are rendered imputrescible by treatment with oils and fats, the decomposition products of which are the actual tanning agents."[/nq]
I thought chamois (shammy) leather came from the skin of the Chamois goat, which lives in Switzerland.
Mike

M.

[nq:2]"Leather is made by three processes or with three classes ... the decomposition products of which are the actual tanning agents."[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought chamois (shammy) leather came from the skin of the Chamois goat, which lives in Switzerland.[/nq]
By now, that poor goat is totally skinless, I bet.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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