Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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hogskin

A soft leather produced from the skin of the peccary, genus Tayassu, and having a distinctive grain pattern formed by the hair follicles which are arranged in detached groups of three. Cf: PIGSKIN .






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