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Material
Stackable
Folded sheet of tanned hide, the grain still showing faintly across the surface, edges trimmed straight and corners rounded by the cutter's block. Smells of oak bark and the long weeks in the tannery's pits.
Entry
Chronicle
Every town large enough to have a market has a tanner at the edge of it, for reasons that become obvious downwind. The finished leather travels further than any of the animals it came from, which is the quiet arithmetic of the trade.