Shearling

Shearling is a skin from a recently sheared sheep or lamb that has been tanned and dressed with the wool left on.^[1] It has a suede surface on one side and a clipped fur surface on the other. Usually the suede side is worn outward. Shearling can be made from real sheepskin or from synthetic fibers. Real shearling breathes and is more flexible than synthetic shearling.^[2]

Modern shearling boots for young women
Shearling coats in a 1905 catalogue
Sheep

References

↑ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shearling
↑ Betzina, Sandra. More Fabric Savvy: A Quick Resource Guide to Selecting and Sewing Fabric. Tauton Press. pp. 124-125. ISBN 1561586625

Leather

Types	Aniline Bicast Boiled Bonded Buckskin Braintanned Calfskin Chamois Chromexcel Corinthian Kidskin Law leather Morocco Nappa Nubuck Ostrich Patent Parchment Rawhide Sealskin Shagreen Shell cordovan Suede

Leather sources	Alligator Bison Cattle Deer Eel Goat Hog Kangaroo Ostrich Seal Sheep Yak

Processes	Deliming Liming Oiling Tanning

Fabrication	Leather carving Leather crafting British Museum leather dressing

Substitutes	Alcantara Artificial leather Naugahyde Poromeric Presstoff Ultrasuede

Leather museums	German Leather Museum Igualada Leather Museum Walsall Leather Museum Leather Archives and Museum British Museum leather dressing

Companies	Horween Leather Company

Related	History of hide materials Leather Archives and Museum Leather subculture

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