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11 THINGS YOU MAY – OR MAY NOT KNOW – ABOUT LEATHER

As I sat down to write this month’s column, I started thinking about the role leather has played not just in American history, but throughout the history of the world. So, I started to scourge the internet looking for interesting facts and tidbits related to the wonderful world of leather. Here are just a few fun ones I found:

One of the oldest known leather artifacts is a 5,500-year-old leather shoe found in Armenia. It dates back

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