Boiled leather

Boiled leather, sometimes called cuir bouilli, was a historical construction material for armour. It consists of thick leather, boiled in water. According to some sources boiled oil and wax were used as well, while others posit the use of ammonia from fermented animal urine. The boiling causes the leather to become harder but also more brittle. The boiled leather can be fashioned into lames or scales to make lamellar or scale armor. The leather remains flexible for a short time after boiling, allowing it to be molded into larger plates.

Cuir bouilli has also been employed to bind books.

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Armour types

Historical armour types

Modern armour types

Trauma plate	Ceramic plate Doron Plate

Ballistic fabrics	Gold Flex Aramid Kevlar Kevlar KM2 Twaron UHMWPE/HPPE Spectra Shield Ballistic nylon

Fictional armour types

Banded mail

Category:Medieval armour
Category:Personal armour

Leather

Types	Aniline Bicast Boiled Bonded Buckskin Braintanned Calfskin Chamois Chromexcel Corinthian Kidskin Law leather Morocco Nappa Nubuck Ostrich Patent Parchment Rawhide Sealskin Shagreen Shell cordovan Suede

Leather sources	Alligator Bison Cattle Deer Eel Goat Hog Kangaroo Ostrich Seal Sheep Yak

Processes	Unhairing Deliming Liming Oiling Tanning

Fabrication	Leather carving Leather crafting British Museum leather dressing

Substitutes	Alcantara Artificial leather Naugahyde Poromeric Presstoff Ultrasuede

Leather museums	German Leather Museum Igualada Leather Museum Walsall Leather Museum Leather Archives and Museum British Museum leather dressing

Companies	Horween Leather Company

Related	History of hide materials Leather Archives and Museum Leather subculture

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