[PDF.33vc] Faux Real: Genuine Leather and Two Hundred Years of Inspired Fakes

Faux Real: Genuine Leather and Two Hundred Years of Inspired Fakes

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 | #2113954 in Books |  2007-04-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.17 x6.36 x9.24l, | File type: PDF | 296 pages

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||From Publishers Weekly|Kanigel, a professor of science writing at MIT, whose biography of the Indian mathematician Ramanujan was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and L.A. Times Book awards, offers a study of leather-its history, chemistry and plac

What makes genuine leather genuine? What makes real things...real? In an age of virtual reality, veneers, synthetics, plastics, fakes, and knockoffs, it's hard to know. Over the centuries, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake things seem real. As early as the 14th century, fabric was treated with special oils to make it resemble leather. In the 1870s came Leatherette, a new bookbinding material. The 20th century has given us Fabrikoid, Naugahyde, Cor...

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