Interesting articles

These pages and the related links will deal with topics relating to Sea Snake Skin, Crocodile Leather and Stingray Leather. We hope that you will find this educational and entertaining.

Some Biological Information

The articles listed here provide some biological information about the sources of the animal skins.

• Sea Snake. As mentioned on this site, Hardwick's sea snake. Read about this in "Sea Snake."
• Crocodile. The particular crocodile is a hybrid between the saltwater and freshwater variety and is grown captive in breeding farms. Read about this in "Crocodile farms"
• Stingray. Also a good source for shagreen. This one is the scaly kind, chosen for those little hard pebble-like objects on the surface and the natural occurring"eye" pattern. There seems to be unrelated assumptions to the well-known car model from General Motors, Chevrolet called "The Stingray". Read about it here in the "The Stingray".
• The Stingray (2nd article). This article provides additional biological information about the Stingray.
• Scaly Stingrays. This article attempts to discuss about the scaly stingrays.
• About crocodile leather. This is a discussion about the most expensive kind of leather, crocodile leather. Some farming information together and a feature trivia, too!

Leather, Fashion and Class

• History of leather and fashion. This articles tries to explain about the history of leather and how it has become a fashion statement.
• Snake leather: General overview of the process. An article about the procedure in making leather from snakes. The article intends to give a general idea and does not claim to be particularly accurate in reproducing snake skin leather specifically leather from Hardwick's sea snake.
• General leather care. This article gives tips and advice on how to care for your leather accessories.
• The Fashion is The Bag. This article deals with the history of the handbag and how it came to be. And there is something for men, too. Ah, so you thought it's just a woman thing.. What's in a woman's hanbag? No, you won't find it here.
• Gifts and giving. Why we give gifts, what's in a gift and the largest gift in the world.
• Exotic leathers. What are they, discussion about industry value and why.