Talk:Buckskin (leather)

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Good additions. Anyone willing to talk about brain-tanning (the Native American process of conditioning buckskin with animal brains, in which the softening ingredient is lecithin)? I don't know enough about it.

But I would disagree with the change in origin; the OED defines buckskin as the "skin of a buck" with citations back to 1433.

A term bucking orbuck-washing is also very old, with OED citations to 1483, with the meaning "The operation of steeping or boiling yarn, cloth, or clothes in a lye of wood ashes, etc., in the old process of bleaching, or in buck-washing; the quantity of clothes, etc. so treated; app. also the lye used in the process. (Cf. blacking.)"

The two may have fallen together in the modern term bucking (or even more likely, bucking may be a backformation buckskin) - but I am not sure we're justified in saying the term does not derive from buck.

Will hold off a rewrite for further comments (and further digging in American dictionaries). PKM 19:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Split?

There already is a disambiguation page: Buckskin (Disambiguation). We just need to edit this page to refer to it and take the irrelevant material out. PKM 17:23, 22 October 2005 (UTC)