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[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 31 minutes ago

Ottoπ’Žπ’‚π’ Empire

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

meanwhile there's a very disappointed dude at a furniture store like:

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 64 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 20 points 17 hours ago

Those Sofas fuck back.

[–] Klear@piefed.world 41 points 17 hours ago
[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 51 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

There isn't even that much leather in the picture. But a lot of skin.

[–] Overspark@piefed.social 86 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair leather is skin.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 34 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

I think, that while it's still on the body, it's called skin. When You make a couch out of it it's leather. Where hide comes in, I have no idea. But in Poland we use the same word for skin, leather and vegetable peels.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

When you skin an animal, you have two choices. Cure it, or tan it. If you just let the skin be, it will rot. You can cure it by coating it in oil, fat, or salt. That will turn into a cured hide which can then be used like other fabrics. Alternatively you can soak the skin in a solution of quicklime (ground limestone dissolved in water.) At that point you scrape the hair from the soaked skin. Then you soak it in a barrel of weak tannin, followed by strong tannin. That becomes leather. There's a few more details, but that's the gist.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Hide is just leather with the hair still on it I think (not sure).

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Two entirely different processes. Hides are skins cured with oil, fat, or salt to prevent them from rotting. Leather is a skin that gets soaked in quicklime, scraped, soaked in weak tannin, and finally soaked in strong tannin to turn the skin into leather.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks! I’m saving this for the imminent apocalypse so I can make my Mad Max armor!

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You'll want to look up some tutorials. I oversimplified the process.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Do you recommend bone spikes for the shoulders or should I go for more of a BDSM ninja vibe?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm a blacksmith, not a tanner, so I don't know.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Metal spikes? I really want to make a good impression when roving the wasteland. Also I’m thinking like a couple of short swords but i have questions about the intimidation factor. Maybe just a broadsword for show and then the short swords for chopping up my enemies. Hmmmm

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Retractable metal spikes, with a big sign that says, "FREE HUGS"

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Oooh I like how you think

[–] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

But when does the piss come into play? I always heard that tanning leather involves piss.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

While you can do it that way, I don't know the process. I know how to make tannin by soaking oak logs in water.

And yes, that is probably the first way we figured out how to do it, but as I understand it, that's a very stinky process, and to be totally honest, I found tannin made from oak to be rather smelly.

[–] Doom@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

In traditional tanning different chemicals are used to process leather. Brains, egg yolks, urine, they all work. The urine isn't a requirement, it's a possible chemical compound a tanner may choose to utilize.

[–] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No, the urine is a requirement. I can't get off otherwise.

[–] Doom@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

You don't think brains are hot? Shallow.

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago

first you need to pee on it to show dominance, then you can call it leather

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Bruh Polish wilding out here again. What is the word something like koΕΎa?

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we dont have 'ΕΎ'

the word for skin/peel/leather is "skΓ³ra"

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Much in the same way that a pickle (gherkin) is a cucumber. But they ain't equivalent

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

What do you think leather is?

[–] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

There probably was at the beginning of the event but it gets stupidly hot in rooms with that many people, even with ac blasting.

This doesn't look like International Mr. Leather, which is the event I'm familiar with, but it gets hot as balls in the congress hotel for that time. People come in with a lot of stuff and then take it off as it gets hot, in both meanings of the word.

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 23 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I was looking for something that said β€œdad likes leather”

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

Something that says, "leather daddy"?

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

They have "daddy likes leather." Is that okay?

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago

I'm afraid I went and blue myself too early.

I mean I always get my sofas from the Gothic Asshole (ahem) Gothic Castle

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 14 points 19 hours ago

Where is this leather world, asking for myself, definitely not for a friend.

[–] SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app 4 points 17 hours ago

Uhhh.... Go Seahawks?

[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Enjoy your fire hazard gentleman

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Good news. Half of these folks are firemen.

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