Their bark and form are so close in characteristics they have to be separated by cutting a small hole in the bark crevasse to expose the inner bark. Black oak will have bright orange to yellow, very bitter-tasting inner bark. Shumard oakâs inner bark is a medium brown.
Leatherette is a form of artificial leather, usually made by covering a fabric base with plastic. The fabric can be made of a natural or a synthetic fibre which is then covered with a soft PVC layer. Leatherette bound books and 20th century cameras are good examples of leatherette.
Split leather is leather created from the fibrous part of the hide left once the top-grain of the rawhide has been separated from the hide. During the splitting operation, the top-grain and drop split are separated. The drop split can be further split (thickness allowing) into a middle split and a flesh split.