Leather hide coverage

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Leather hide coverage

Started by sofadoc, March 29, 2013, 12:04:34 pm

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Re: Leather hide coverage

April 04, 2013, 01:45:11 pm #15

Quote from: sterry56 on April 04, 2013, 12:06:47 pm
How do they measure a hide so accurately? .........Tanneries and leather wholesale houses have a "light" table that they run the hides through.

The table measures the amount of light that is "blocked out" by the hide and it uses that information to compute how big the hide is. That is how all of the odd shapes are accounted for. Steve

So if I take 6,984 square 1" tiles, I can lay them out on a 48.5 SF hide, and completely cover it.

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