Higher Study on Leather Technology : Part-1

Higher study on Leather Technology or Leather Engineering is not widely available till today. Only a handful number of universities and colleges offer courses in their higher study programs like M.Sc. and Postgraduate programs, related to Leather Technology.

Colleges and universities of UK, Italy and Germany are in the leading position, offering a number of programs and courses in leather technology for both local and international students. Our neighboring country India offers a number of courses in this field.

 In this part we're going to focus on some colleges and universities from UK that offers affordable quality education.

The University of Northampton

The University of Northampton offers  M.Sc. program in Leather Technology. The course is designed to provide opportunities to sharpen the technical knowledge and opens door for further research. 

Entry requirements

Applicants will normally hold a recognized first or second class honors degree from a UK university or international equivalent in a relevant subject area. Students with lower level qualifications, but relevant experience in the leather industry will also be considered on an individual basis. Applicants for whom English is not their first language will need to demonstrate that they meet the minimum English language requirement of IELTS 6.5 (or equivalent).

You can find details information on M.Sc. program in Leather Technology here.

Cranfield University

 

Cranfield University offers postgraduate programs that allows students having a Bachelor degree in Leather Technology.

See details on postgraduate programs at Cranfield University here.

Edinburgh Napier University

 

Edinburgh Napier University offers M.Sc. program on Advanced Materials Engineering. They have excellent industry links and encourage you to interact with the industry too. All projects are practically focused, with emphasis on using industry standard manufacturing and testing equipment.

Learn more about Edinburgh Napier University M.Sc. program here.

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Men's Shoulder Bag: The Recent Trends

We, men are using thousand different types of Men's Shoulder Bags for our different purposes. Day by day it became a very essential part of our gesture. A shoulder bag is a very handy accessory for men's fashion.

Prehistoric men used shoulder bags in a very basic form to keep their belongings. Those bags are mostly made from animal skins, plant barks and leafs. Our predecessors used sun dried animal skins until the discovery of salt, which became very handy ingredient for preserving the raw skins...

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Safety Complainces of Footwear Industry in Bangladesh

Safety compliance is the totality of rules, regulation operating in a working place of which an employer and an employee are bound to obey; some of them are either mandatory or directory. The notion of safety compliance is to ensure the security of life of a worker, to keep environment workable and to prefect the environment from pollution.

Points Extracted from The Study

1. Oriented and established shoe industries in Bangladesh maintain the Safety Compliance.
2. Now a days the small and medium enterprise of shoe production also becoming more concern about Safety Compliance day by day as they also trying to enter to the world market.
3. The application of the most effective concept “ Ergonomics” is not up to mark in shoe industries in Bangladesh, despite of its high performance in safety and productivity.
4. Most of our shoe industries are not enough conscious about the Safety Compliance during chemical handling and using.

It is important to be aware on compliance specially safety compliance for the future business, Small and Medium Entrepreneurs and footwear industries. Because in future the industrial compliance will get rigorous in attitude for export market.

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Making of a Florence Leather Box

Florence Leather Boxes are usually used for keeping various small items like jewelery, cigar and so on. These hand crafted box have the attractiveness to catch the eye and it's really easy to make one. A mold is used to give the shape of of the box and wax finish to give the slick and shiny look. We can use other decorative materials like stones or can use brush paints to give a elegant look to the final product.

Materials and Tools for Florence Leather Box:

1. Mold: A mold is required for conforming the shape of the box. Wooden molds are preferred for this box as it is easy to handle and comparatively cheap in price.
2. Leather: Vegetable tanned leathers are preferred for Florence Leather Box construction.
3. Adhesive: Water base adhesives are preferred.
4. Others: Different finishing and decorative materials depending on your design.

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Studies on The Effect of Various Kind of Protin Binder to Produce High Quality Glaze Kid Leather

Glaze kid leather is a light fine high-class shoe upper leather. Principle of glaze kid leather is designed depending its. Like, full in substance, tine, smooth, lightly, glossy soft to feel, resilient, and non-stretchy etc, and also from, its physical quality requirements. On the whole its principle can be summarized in the following way.

Goat skin has length 70-90 cm without any defect and disease may be chosen for glaze kid leather. Soaking is done in as usual manner, prolonged soaking is avoided as far as possible, because it may loose hide substance though, and bacteria attack.

Liming is sharp and not very prolonged. Unhairing by painting is usually done because it keeps the goat hair unaffected, which is an important by product of glaze kid leather. After painting pelts are also impedes in flesh lime liquor with certain quality of sharpening agent. After liming, sharp declining and bedding is done. After deliming and bating pelts should be flaccid, silky grain, clean and should lie in any position in which it is kept.

Cr – attaining can be done following both single and double bath process, but best known process according to the practice of Dr.belaveky’s is the skins are treated with chrome alum and dichromate in the same bath to which, after some time, hypo and acid are added. Liquor of anning should not mask.

Neutralization should done with mild alkalis and pH should be near scout 4.8. it will be better if we can avoid neutralizing syntax. Retaining is carried out in a way that there in no surface deposition.

Direct dyes have been found to have good affinity for chrome leather, acid dyes are also need. Basic dye is used to increase brilliancy in the toping. It must note contain any kind fat or oils to its surface and fat contain should not exceed 6-8%. Mainly used synthetic and semi-synthetic fat because sulphited fats are highly penetrative and make leather too soft and natural bats have very poor fixing power. So may come out on pressure. Finishing is very vital in glaze kid leather. It is essential to use smallest possible quality of pigment finish to preserve the natural grain of goatskins and to impart smooth and soft feel. It should be resistant to dry and wet rubbing and also key test should not break the finish film until the it is cracked by key test, in season coats, now-a days caseins based water pigment finishes employed, smooth grain. Top coat, protein binders, poly amide etc, used. Fixing is done by HCHO.

Protein binder has very good effect upon glaze kid leather. It can cover most of the type of defect of the grain. Protein are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvent and are opaque. Protein has very low binding effect. So it need to mix with wax emulsion and polyurethane impart good gloss on the leather. But if there were some resin it will destroy the protein binder capacity. After completing various type of testing it is found the finished glace kid leather has made in fine quality and in Bangladesh we can make glace kid leather which will not be expensive for us and it will not take more money to produce high quality glazed kid leather as export quality.

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Studies on The Manufacturing Procedure of Hand Gloves

A Hand Glove (came from Old English glof) is defined as a covering for the hand with an individual sheath for each of the fingers and the thumb. This definition includes gloves with partial coverings for the fingers and thumb, such as bicycle gloves. Gloves have separate sheaths or openings for each finger and the thumb; if there is an opening but no covering sheath for each finger they are called "fingerless gloves". Fingerless gloves with one large opening rather than individual openings for each finger are sometimes called gauntlets. Glove which cover the entire, hand butt do not have separate finger openings or sheaths are called mittens.

Today's world is very much fashionable and also sincere about their safety. So, to protect the hand from frost and damage in riding bike, there is no alternative of using safety gloves. Glove making is a little bit difficult I think. Sometimes it needs some heavy machinery to make quality gloves. Bangladesh could have a good prospect, if we invest and make proper utilize of them.

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