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vegetan
vegetan
English
Noun
vegetan
- The common term for vegetable-tanned leather. This is typically cow skin tanned using tannins derived from plant materials rather than chemicals. Produces a stiffer leather that takes tooling very well, but is easily damaged by water without further treatment.
- A synthetic microfibre, intended to be used as a vegan substitute for leather.
- 2006, "Eco hero: Galahad Clark", Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 12, 2006
- Today, its shoes are made from 'vegetan' and chrome-free leather (chrome is usually used in the dyeing process) for the uppers,
- 2006, "Eco hero: Galahad Clark", Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 12, 2006