The use of paper spread slowly, however, and most of the oldest surviving manuscripts are of other materials, particularly vellum (fine-grained lambskin, kidskin, or calfskin).
The kid glove has retained supremacy as the aristocrat of gloves, but other kinds of leather are also utilized in modern glove manufacture, including capeskin, cabretta, pigskin, buckskin, reindeer skin, and lambskin, also called doeskin.
Ivory longwool pram liner £64.95, thelittlegreensheep.co.uk Little Green Sheep's range of lambskin liners are excellent for young babies and toddlers.
The old majordomo, Ghulam Rasool, had strolled down to watch the show, a potbellied figure with a tall lambskin hat resting at a slight angle on a fringe of white hair.
I sat in my four-berth compartment with a soldier in a dark uniform, a student of about twenty-two, and an old man with a long chin beard, wearing traditional Turkmen dress — a cylindrical black lambskin hat and a long brown cloak over a smock, one of those national costumes which seem eternal and comfortable everywhere, in all seasons.
It was finely combed and as thin as lambskin; she had thought about saving it for a more interesting occasion.
The F.I.T. show will include one of Pugh's creations for Guinness: a lambskin pants suit embedded with thousands of tiny sharp nails pointing outward, like the metallic bristles on a dog-grooming brush.
I noticed a beautiful green lambskin jacket paired with a long suède skirt embellished with grommets, silver studs, and Western beading ($950 and $1,460, respectively).
The store's ambition goes awry at times: a lambskin jacket from Chronicles of Never was more like a hide with armholes ($714, discounted from $1,428), and the Assembly jodhpurs forced a reconsideration of appropriate sock height.
Beginning next month, Virgin America crew members will be wearing new uniforms by Banana Republic — including a women's torso-hugging lambskin leather jacket and a men's zip-up cardigan with red and black bicep bands — that would seem just as fitting in an upscale bar as in the cabin of an Airbus A320.
