When you talk to leather experts, there is always a lot of "OMG" etc. Well leather is organic and has been found intact in 2000 year old tombs. Here is a 1890 thereabouts leather rug from India north of Bombay in Gujarat which I got in Karachi in 1977...there is no other example known and has been previously understood only by descriptions. I took this rug to several leather specialists including the Smithsonian 35 years ago. I haven't had a coherent or consistent explanation on the survivability of leather yet. I would welcome some leather specialists' opinions on this thread.
