Leather oil
Lederol , which was certainly developed and produced as early as the 1930s, but possibly as early as the First World War, was an imitation leather. It was a single-sided rubberized, plain weave fabric made of cotton or viscose fiber yarns. The rubber layer could be smooth or grained like leather by means of embossing. Lederol was waterproof and impermeable to air. The group consisting of a low basis weight rubber coat substance prepared was referred to as oil skin.
The production process was refined in the GDR . Lederol was used for jackets, coats, bags and hats, for rainwear or protective clothing for boatmen and motorcyclists, but also for permanent chair covers or book covers.
Production under the name Lederol was discontinued after the reunification of Germany. Some products have since found their way into various GDR collections / museums, e.g. B. in the motorcycle museum Dresden. But artificial leather is still being produced and is also used in a variety of ways.
In Austria , this synthetic leather was also used in the clothing industry and in book production.
Trivia
In the GDR there were also rhymes like:
In Igelit and Lederol every Zoni feels good.
Every Westerner envies you when you are dressed in leather oil.
If you have leather oil in the house, you can also go out when it rains.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caricature in Simplicissimus , Volume 21 (1916/17), Issue 52, page 675
- ^ Frankfurter Israelitisches Gemeindeblatt, Volume 15, No. 8, Frankfurt a. M. May 1937, p. 10. In an announcement of the specialty shop for men's and boys' clothing Ludwig Grau, among other things, rubber and leather jackets are offered
- ^ Meyers New Lexicon in eight volumes, Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1964, Volume 5, p. 311
- ^ Author collective: Handbuch der Textilwaren, Vol. 2. Fachbuchverlag Leipzig 1972, pp. 121/122