Cuir de Cordoba is usually made of fine leather; often calf skins are used.

They also use goat skin heads as opposed to calf skin or plastic heads.

The first books used parchment or vellum (calf skin) for the pages.

It took 300 calf skins or 100 pig skins to print the Bible.

Because it was produced on calf skin of high quality, it has been preserved in good condition.

In a year they dealt with 5,000 hides and 12,000 calf skins.

"We'll want a bit of calf skin for the soles," she said, "and some thicker stuff for building up the heels."

The heads may be made of calf skin or plastic.

The manuscript is written on parchment made from calf skins.

This tiny image was painted by Nicholas Hilliard in watercolour on fine calf skin.