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Glossary of Terms

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Vegetable Tanned	Vegetable tannins are plant polyphenols, which may be supplied as an extract of part of a plant eg the bark of trees or they may be supplied as powdered plant parts eg seed pods. Vegetable leather is tanned exclusively with vegetable tanning agents, or with such materials together with small amount of other agents used merely to assist the tanning process or to improve or modify the leather.
Veiny	Veins can show up on the flesh side of leather as branch marks. The cause is inadequate bleeding after the animal is killed or the selective degradation of the vein material by elastolytic enzymes, during the earlier stages of processing. The areas that used to contain a vein can become very loose, the leather is then said to be veiny. In extreme cases, the veins can show up in the grain layer.
Veslic Rub-Fastness Tester	A machine used to determine the rub-fastness of a piece of leather.

Vegetable Tanned

Vegetable tannins are plant polyphenols, which may be supplied as an extract of part of a plant eg the bark of trees or they may be supplied as powdered plant parts eg seed pods. Vegetable leather is tanned exclusively with vegetable tanning agents, or with such materials together with small amount of other agents used merely to assist the tanning process or to improve or modify the leather.

Veiny

Veins can show up on the flesh side of leather as branch marks. The cause is inadequate bleeding after the animal is killed or the selective degradation of the vein material by elastolytic enzymes, during the earlier stages of processing. The areas that used to contain a vein can become very loose, the leather is then said to be veiny. In extreme cases, the veins can show up in the grain layer.

Veslic Rub-Fastness Tester

A machine used to determine the rub-fastness of a piece of leather.