‘‘There’s nothing like leather,” runs the old sayu.g, hut it is out of date to-day. Whaleskin has been used for some time for making boots, trunks, harness, and eve-n "kid” gloves, while experiments conducted with dolphins and various kinds of sharks have given excellent, results. Then the idea occurred to someone that many kinds of the larger sea tis.li had tough hides beneath their scales, and soon beautiful fishskin leather was being made. If crocodile skin was good, why should not use lie made of some of the smaller lizards? And if lizards were satisfactory, why not snakes as well ? Reptile skins are now tanned just like ordinary leather. They are used chiefly for making the uppers of women’s shoes. before they melt entirely away.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3574, 12 September 1922, Page 27
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