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Researchers Test 2,400-Year-Old Leather and Realize It's Made of Human Skin (gizmodo.com)
submitted 9 months ago by LollerCorleone@kbin.social to c/damnthatsinteresting@lemmy.ml
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A group of horse-riding warriors kept some gruesome battle trophies.

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago

Whether any of the rumored clothing sewn from scalps will ever be recovered is another matter.

Sorry for the game ref, but this immediately reminds me RimWorld. One of the gruesome things that players do in the game is to use human leather for random stuff like cowboy hats, armchairs, or even dusters in a pinch.

Trivia: there's a currently endangered language called Ossetian, that is most likely related to the languages spoken by the Scythians - either a direct descendant of one, or of a close relative.

[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All leather is gruesome

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Especially fruit leather!

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now I can't get the idea of a fruit leathercraft out of my head. If you someday see a youtube video of fruit leather moccasins, knife sheath, and arrow quiver; that is on you. You have nobody but yourself to blame for incepting that.

[–] flipht@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've heard of people growing kombucha scoby in rectangular containers and then drying it to use in place of leather.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

I remember seeing a company making vegan leather like this, super cool concept

[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

Hahaha you found the exception

[–] Gregorech@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's sticky and doesn't hold up in the rain.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

That's why you have to waterproof it first.

[–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Rimworld