Naugahyde

Naugahyde

Naugahyde is an American brand of artificial leather. Naugahyde is a composite knit fabric backing and expanded polyvinyl chloride (PVC) coating. It was developed by Byron A. Hunter, a senior chemist at the United States Rubber Company, and is now manufactured and sold by the corporate spin-off Uniroyal Engineered Products LLC.

Its name, first used as a trademark in 1936, comes from the name of Naugatuck, Connecticut, where it was first produced. It is now manufactured in Stoughton, Wisconsin.

Uses

The primary use for Naugahyde is as a substitute for leather in upholstery. In this application, it is very durable and can be easily maintained by wiping with a damp sponge or cloth. It is a synthetic product that is supplied in long rolls, allowing large furniture sections to be covered seamlessly, unlike animal hides.

General Motors, for several decades, used the material in several of its vehicles, with the term "Cordaveen" and later "Madrid-grain vinyl" for Buick, "Morocceen" for Oldsmobile, "Morrokide" for Pontiac vehicles, while Chevrolet didn't use a brand name and listed it in sales brochures as "vinyl interior".

Leather can have various references:

Leather subculture is about BDSM, or that part of it that associates closer to S&M and fetish or to Homosexual BDSM. Leather fetishism describes an attraction to people wearing leather, or to items made from leather. Old Guard leather (also Old Guard but not to be confused with fascist movements of that same name) is the gay leather subculture from which much of BDSM originally derived. New Guard leather (also New Guard or just New Guard) is a more sexually-liberated and less protocol-driven version of the Leather subculture. Leather Family describes a family or family-sized-group living in an alternate lifestyle often based on the leather subculture or on BDSM. Leather Community is used to loosely associate people living in the leather subculture or even into the wider BDSM. Roughly equivalent to "BDSM Lifestyle" Started in the USA and now including leather folk as far away as Canada, there is the National Leather Association: International There is a Leather Pride Flag. Leather queen is a homosexual man who is into the leather subculture, Leather (noun) is a common material for making various equipment including blindfolds, handcuffs, whips and clothing.

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External links

• The Naugahyde Company

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