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box-calf
[Named about 1890 by Edward L. White, of White Bros. & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A., after Joseph Box, bootmaker, of London. (The picture of a calf in a box was adopted as an advertising device.)]
A calfskin tanned with chrome salts and having a grain of rectangularly crossed lines. Cf. box-grain.
[1899Moniteur de la Cordonnerie 437 (Bonnaffé Dict.).] 1904P. N. Hasluck Leather Working 15 Box Calf.—The grain side is the face of this leather. It is somewhat like firm ooze calf, only black. 1906A. Watt Leather Manuf. (ed. 5) 356 In box-calf it is usual to grain two ways only, once from the head to the tail, and then from belly to belly. 1908Trotman Leather Trades Chem. 143 Ordinary chromed box-calf shavings containing 5·7 per cent. of chromic oxide. |