MANUAL FOR LEATHER ACCESSORIES AND LEATHER GOODS

Subramanian Natesan

Central Leather Research Institute, Adyar, India

Pages 153

The growth in recent times of leather manufacture and production of leather goods, particularly garments have been phenomenal. Such growth stemming from the increasing demand has been backed up by developments in fashion design, patterns creation and techniques of fabrication. Simultaneous support in the form of simple as well as sophisticated tools, equipments and machinery has been forthcoming. Leather is the major input for the Leather Products Industry and, therefore, a knowledge or manufacture of different types of leather is a pre-requisite for undertaking products making. The present manual addresses itself to this task by presenting scientific material in an easy and readable manner. In this working manual, different chapters have been devoted to the process of Leather Manufacture, accessories, various tools, different types of machinery and their operational methods and working methodology in practice with suitable illustrations.