ABSTRACT
PRAFULLA NAMDEO SHEDE1, ASHISH VASANTRAO POLKADE2, PRADNYA PRALHAD KANEKAR3, PRASHANT KAMALAKAR DHAKEPHALKAR4, and SEEMA SHREEPAD SARNAIK5
1Department of Microbiology, MES’ Abasaheb Garware College, Karve Road, Pune 411004, India 2Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, First floor, Central Tower, Sai Trinity Building Garware Circle, Sutarwadi, Pashan, Pune 411021, India 3Department of Biotechnology, Modern College of Arts Science and Commerce, Shivajinagar, Pune 411005, India 4Bioenergy, MACS Agharkar Research Institute, G.G. Agarkar Road, Pune 411004, India 5Microbial Sciences Division, MACS Agharkar Research Institute, G.G. Agarkar Road, Pune 411004, India
9.1 INTRODUCTION
In looking for a covering material for himself, his hut and food, primitive man turned either to leaves from plants or to the skins of animals he killed. The latter were usually chosen for clothing, as they were bigger, stronger, and warmer. As per British Standard Definitions, hide is the raw skin of a mature or fully grown animal of the larger kinds, such as cattle and horses; also camels, rhinoceroses and whales and skin is the raw skin of a mature, fully grown animal of the smaller kinds, like goats, sheep, pig, and others. The flayed skins or hides of dead animals are used as raw materials for leather making. Leather is nothing but the skins or hides whose protein has been stabilized through the process of tanning.
