Scotland's only remaining
sheepskin tannery has turned to an age-old procedure using tree bark to cure its leather in a bid to cut the firm's impact on the environment.
Local villagers put
sheepskins in these streams to catch floating gold, a technique that goes back thousands of years--suggesting that the region is the province of the ancient Colchis Kingdom, the Argonauts' destination in Greek mythology, the researchers conclude November 20 in Quaternary International.
From the home front, a campaign began to send every digger a specially designed
sheepskin vest.
The pair dressed in full
sheepskin fleeces, complete with heads, to lie low among farm flocks.
As a result some 50,000 Faeroese
sheepskins would be sent to the incinerator after the annual slaughter this year.
It turned out Roy's company sold Shear Comfort medical
sheepskins, produced from natural Australian skins.
Tertsakian's
sheepskins Eye-catching radiator from Radiating Style
SHOP LAUNCH: Property manager Linda Griffin with a
sheepskin and knitting wool from the Jacob sheep at Charlecote Park.
The
sheepskins are usually snapped up by Russians for their sub-zero winters.
The first entry in each cell is the t-statistic for the difference in college
sheepskins and the second is for the difference in high-school
sheepskins.
Perhaps this should have been obvious in Cai's contribution to the Hugo Boss Prize exhibition, the installation Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The Ark of Genghis Khan, 1996, a gigantic boat made of logs and inflated
sheepskins ineffectually powered by a brace of Toyota engines.
Two leaders, in red light, spread
sheepskins and knelt on them.
Nevertheless, the CPSC reports that "severe respiratory acidosis (an indication of high C[O.sub.2] blood levels) occurred after one hour for animals subjected to tests using both bean bag cushions and
sheepskins. Moreover, as the experiments progressed, death occurred in three out of four rabbits connected to bean bag cushions and in one out of four connected to
sheepskin pads.
FOR the largest selection of quality leathers and
sheepskins in the Midlands - and possibly the UK - why not pay a visit to Radford Leather Fashions.