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  1. 04-21-2013, 06:29 PM #1
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    Elephant vinyl 200mm ^2 (68) pattern

    Figured out the elephant hide vinyl pattern is 200mm x 200mm, so I can replicate it in a mold/ and in a laser cut pattern on cad

    this is the lower portion
    strange thing is the upper hide is a finer pattern

    attached inverted starting image

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    Vinyls are patterened by calendering with rollers... maybe the variation (finer grained area) is a result of heat or tension during that process?

    I thought elephant hide was being reproduced in Germany, but only in gray.
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    On mine there are three grades - an almost invisible grain on the backing, a finer and shallower grain on the upper, and a very realistic rough grain on the bottom.
    I am tempted to simply take a mold from it or digitize it for laser cutting a mold or stamp.


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    I have done some research and have not found anyone supplying this. I am interested. There is a supplier of real "dead" Elephant skins though.
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    Hoping to find a vinyl manufacturer after I complete the three CAD drawings for the 200mm x 200mm sample.
    Plan be is to draw up the entire panel for a mold or a laser router.
    Elephant exists in the music world, and Tolex is available:
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    You can get close, and in colors as well:


    Ebony tuscany:
    Tuscany - Infiniss Vinyl - $978 for 40/yd. roll. $26.95/yd. or ($32.95/yd for cut yardage)

    http://www.infiniss-vinyl.com/

    http://www.bandjfabrics.com/fabrics/textured-vinyl


    http://www.exoticleatherco.com/vinyl/hideout.html

    http://www.exoticleatherco.com/leath...Old-Croco.html

    red:
    http://www.exoticleatherco.com/vinyl/premium-vinyl.html
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    I would never use it (because of poaching encouragement), but here is real hide just to show how well they pulled off the vinyl pattern in 1968:
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    embossed cow leather is another option:
    http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/29...nt_grain_.html


    and more from China:
    http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/69...her_cheap.html
    http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/51...n_leather.html
    http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/23..._for_sofa.html
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