Under high ceilings, men stamp out pieces from shiny leather hides, while women stitch together shoe tops at sewing machines.
With the collapse of Mr. Hussein's rule, Iraq no longer subsidizes imports of leather hides, a subsidy that the company passed along to its customers.
They are not farmed to any extent, but wild kangaroos are shot for meat, leather hides, and to protect grazing land for sheep and cattle.
A pack of tall bipedal lizards stalked through the crowd, wearing cured leather hides and brightly coloured scarves.
It has no natural defects that are associated with real leather made from leather hides (which will always bear the marks of its natural origin).
The leather is made from full grain vegetable tanned leather hides.
Grain and wine, precious stones, leather hides, tools of iron and bronze, a thousand other things that were destined for the hungry maw of the city ahead.
Bark from the many Eastern hemlocks on its slopes was a rich source of tannin, and leather hides were often brought to the region to be tanned.
Inside the cavernous factory this week, pallets of wet-blue leather hides, which become powder blue after being tanned with chromium salts, awaited the dyeing process.
The first Egyptian soldiers carried a simple armament consisting of a spear with a copper spearhead and a large wooden shield covered by leather hides.