What is Leather?
Tuesday, 22 March 2011 00:00
Shangz Brown
An Answer to the question: What is Leather?
According to the British Standard 2780, leather is:
"Hide or skin with its original fibrous structure more or less intact, tanned to be imputrescible. The hair or wool may, or may not, have been removed. It is also made from a hide or skin that has been split into layers or segmented either before or after tanning."
Imputrescible [im-pyoo-tres-uh-buh l] references leathers incorruptible state. It is not subject to decay. The genuiness is determined by the amount of coating layer applied to its surface.
"The amount of surface coating applied to the leather influences whether or not the item can be described as genuine leather.
'..If the leather has a surface coating, the mean thickness of this surface layer, however applied, has to be 0.15mm or less, and does not exceed 30% of the overall thickness"
REFERNCES
What is leather?. (2011, March 21). Retrieved from http://www.all-about-leather.co.uk/what-is-leather/what-is-leather.htm
imputrescible. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved March 21, 2011, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/imputrescible
British Leather Technology Centre
This is one of the many sites dedicated to the art and technology of 'smithing' leather. Smithing leather is actually an ancient profession.
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BLC Leather Technology Centre Ltd - Kings Park Road - Moulton Park - Northampton - NN3 6JD - UK - Registered No: 07009052 (England) Tel: +44 (0) 1604 679999 - Fax: +44 (0) 1604 679998 - email:
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Science and Technology of Leather
According to the Science Engineering and Technology, the UK is (and has been for over 100 years) the leader for providing formal education in leather technology. Now if you would like to geek about the whole thing you can get your sci on and read here and here about it. But If you are just interested in the sporting, wearing, and absolute glam of leather I would suggest you visit a budding leather technologist on the rise in the fashion industry - Natalie Hemmens of NHLA Desgins.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 March 2011 08:12
The Book
Sunday, 29 January 2012 00:00
shangbaby!
It has been a long, long love affair me and the book. I have found awesome things like: windows to the past, paths to the future, and a lot of how to get to both. What books held your attention and hasn't let you go since? Why was the hold so strong? Let's share our journey with books and speak of the what, why, where, who, and how it all began for you with a particular book or a collection. I am all ears!
Last Updated on Sunday, 29 January 2012 18:40
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Globalization, Outsourcing & Wage Inequality
Tuesday, 15 March 2011 08:53
Shangz Brown
Introduction
Some say a common enemy brings people together, but what about a common phenomenon. Globalization, outsourcing and wage inequality are three components of the world economy that may bring the human community closer together, albeit kicking and screaming. These three phrases incite strong debate within the labor and trade industries. By pulling apart each term, clarity may emerge to illicit an easier understanding of what is to come as far as the ominous economic future, if it is, indeed, ominous.
Globalization
Globalization is a term to express the phenomenon of growth from a local to an international scale (WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006). According to Moises Naim, author of
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy (New York: Doubleday, 2005), globalization is more than international investments and trade. He concurs with political scientist, David Held, that globalization is a “widening, deepening and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary social life (Naim, 2009, p28).
Outsourcing
Outsourcing is a term used to express the activity of assigning internal tasks, to external sources. The tasks usually are internal to an organization. Often, outsourcing is a solution to reduce costs and elevate ROI. According to Peter Elstrom of BusinessWeek.com, there is a strong debate about the inherent goodness or badness of outsourcing in relation to the US economy.
Wage inequality
Wage inequality is an economic phrase that references an observation of three basic patterns:
"First, the overall distribution of hourly and weekly earnings across all workers in the economy has grown wider. Second, consistent with this rise, the wage gaps between workers with different levels of education, especially between college graduates and workers with no more than a high school diploma, have also increased. This rise in “between education-group” earnings disparity, however, accounts for only a modest fraction of the rise in overall wage dispersion because of the third pattern: The variance of wages among workers with the same level of education has also grown" (Wheeler, 2005, p375).
Conclusion
Nothing happens in a vacuum. These economic components are inextricably interconnected. A critical account of each can lay the foundation of how to adjust to current economic changes. It may even lead to identifying altruistic motivations for manifesting changes within the human community.
Reference # 1
Elstrom, Peter (February 23, 2007). "The uneven impact of outsourcing - Certain cities hit hard; others remain largely unscathed." BusinessWeek.comRetrieved March 8, 2009 from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17281339/
Reference # 2
Naím, M. (2009, March). Globalization. Foreign Policy, Retrieved March 8, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
Reference # 3
Wheeler, Christopher (May/June 2005). "Evidence on Wage Inequality, Worker Education,
and Technology " Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June 2005, 87(3), pp. 375-93.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 09:06
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