How to recognize sheepskin gloves?
Friends who know leather goods know that the best leather for gloves is sheepskin, which is very durable, smooth and comfortable.
Sheepskin is the skin of a bovine goat or sheep. The skin of goat or sheep contains little water, protein, fat and inorganic substances. The latter two are very small. The protein that constitutes the epidermis is mainly keratin; the dermis is mainly collagen and reticulin, and it also contains elasticity. Hard protein, albumin, globulin and mucin, etc.
Sheepskin is characterized by oblate grained pores, which are obliquely deep into the leather; the pores are clear, and several pieces are arranged in a group, arranged like scales or jagged. The pattern features such as water ripples. Sheepskin is light, thin and soft. It is an ideal fabric for leather garments. The garments made of beautiful patterns, soft and natural luster, light and soft, and flexible, but the strength is not as good as cowhide and pigskin.
Sheep skin: The skin layer has more fat content, the fiber tissue of the skin is loose, very soft, the grain is fine and smooth, and the extensibility is large, but it is not strong.
Goat skin: The fat content in the cortex is less, the fibrous tissue is fuller than sheep skin, the pores are clear, the cortex is elastic, firm and durable.