Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by origin]
6. biological material
7. animal material
8. processed animal material
9. leather
10. [leather by process]
11. vegetable-tanned leather
12. vegetable-tanned sheepskin

Anotations

Scope note:

Smooth-grained natural- or cream-colored sheepskin leather, vegetable-tanned, usually with bark, commonly used in the 19th and early 20th centuries in binding law books, especially in England, as a less expensive alternative to "law calf." It has been superceded in that use by "law buckram."