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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 fourteenth century, fabric was treated with special oils to make it resemble leather. In the 1870s came Leatherette, a new bookbinding material. The twentieth century gave us Fabrikoid, Naugahyde, Corfam, and Ultrasuede....Show more
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ISBN
9780812221329
Publisher
Philadelphia, PA, USA : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Published year
2010
Language
English
Original title
Faux Real : Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes
Format
Paperback
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