What is the passage about?
How could we come to know that animal skins were prepared and used long before textiles?
Which animal skins can mainly, and which animal skins can to a lesser extent be used and made into leather?
What is the difference between “hide’ and ‘skin’? (e)What happens to flayed skin if left wet, and what is the commonest method of preserving flayed skins?
What is D.D.T.? And why is it used on the skins?
What is ‘crust’ leather? Why is it sent to tannery?
What virtues does middle layer of the skin, known as leather, owe?
What knowledge have you had from this passage?
Give a suitable title of the passage.
raw
pottery
vague
tannery
penetration
| Noun | Verb | Adjective |
| (a) Strength | x | |
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Skins do not last as long as pottery. Our knowledge about the early use of skin is vague.
Hides are essential raw materials. Important articles of commerce.
This involves sprinkling the skins. Salt on their inner side.
Most cattle hides come from South America. The best goat skins come from India.
Vapour and air to pass through it. Resisting penetration by liquid water itself.
Immature;
interval;
flexibility
elasticity
wet
stretch out;
salt solution
dry
immersion
Importance of protecting our environment.
Problems and prospects of handicraft sector in Bangladesh.
Bengali New Year Festival.