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{{short description|Furreds skin of a goat}}
[[Image:Parchment from goatskin.jpg|thumb|Finished [[parchment]] made of goatskin stretched on a wooden frame]]
[[Image:Goat skins.jpg|thumb|Goat skins]]
'''Goatskin''' refers to the [[skin]] of a [[goat]], which by long term usage, is denoted by the term ''[[Morocco leather]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cool.conservation-us.org/don/dt/dt2275.html |title=Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology |publisher=Cool.conservation-us.org |date=2011-11-19 |access-date=2013-01-12}}</ref> [[Kidskin]], used for gloves, shoes and other accessories, is traditionally goatskin, although other leathers such as sheep and kangaroo can be used to make kid.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cumming |first=Valerie |title=Gloves |year=1982 |publisher=Batsford |location=London |isbn=9780713410082 |edition=Reprinted. |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/gloves00vale }}</ref><ref name=allen>{{cite book |last=Allen |first=Frederick J. |chapter=Leather: The Varieties of Upper Leather |title=The Shoe Industry |year=1916 |publisher=The Vocation Bureau of Boston / Рипол Классик (Ripol Classic) |isbn=9785874447977 |pages=94–96 |quote=There are five chief kinds of upper leather, as follows : Kid or goat, calfskin, side leather, sheepskin, and coltskin or horsehide. There are also other kinds, such as kangaroo, chamois, buckskin, pigskin... |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/shoeindustry00alle/page/94/mode/1up?view=theater }}</ref>

[[Tanning (leather)|Tanned]] [[leather]] from goatskin is considered extremely durable and is commonly used to make [[Carpet|rug]]s (for example in Indonesia) and [[carpet binding]]. It is often used for [[glove]]s, [[boot]]s, and other products that require a soft hide. Kid gloves, popular in [[Victorian times]], are still made today. It has been a major material for leather [[bookbinding]]s for centuries, and the oldest European binding, that of the [[St Cuthbert Gospel]] in the [[British Library]], is in red goatskin. Goatskin is used for a traditional Spanish container for wine [[bota bag]] (or called goatskin). Traditional [[kefir]] was made in bags from goatskin.

Non-tanned goatskin is used for [[parchment]] or for [[drumhead]]s or [[sounding board]]s of some musical instruments, e.g., [[mišnice]] in medieval Europe, [[bodhrán]] in Ireland, [[esraj]] in India and for instrumental drum skin named ''[[bedug]]'' in Indonesia.

In [[ancient Rome]] priests (known as Luperci) wore goatskins during [[Lupercalia]], a pastoral festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Lupercalia.html |title=LacusCurtius • Roman Religion — The Lupercalia (Smith's Dictionary, 1875) |publisher=Penelope.uchicago.edu |date=2003-02-14 |access-date=2013-11-21}}</ref>

A breed of goat that provides high-quality skin is for example the [[Black Bengal goat|Black Bengal]] breed, native to [[Bangladesh]].

In 1974, there was controversy in the [[United States]] surrounding goatskin products originating in [[Haiti]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml74/74026.html |title=Goatskin Products from Haiti Anthrax Warning |publisher=Cpsc.gov |access-date=2013-01-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109000405/https://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml74/74026.html |archive-date=2013-01-09 }}</ref> The U.S. [[Centers for Disease Control]] discovered that some of these products contained deadly [[anthrax]] spores. All Haitian goatskin products in the USA were recalled, although no fatalities were reported.

==Gallery==
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Image:Jagdpaletots Ziege und Seehund.jpg|Goatskin and sealskin jacket (1902)
Image:Guerba.jpg|Water reservoir in Algeria
Image:Mauritanian_bota_bag.jpg|Water reservoir in Mauritania
Image:Kid_skin.jpg|Kid skins
Image:Handbuch_Hanicke100.jpg|Cut for a goatskin 'coachman collar' (1895)
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[:Category:Goatskin-producing goat breeds|Goatskin-producing goat breeds]]
*[[Mashk]]

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