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Moisture permeation through clothing leathers and moisture absorption were investigated by the experimental method used in the previous report (A Consideration on Mechanism of Moisture Permeability through Knitted Fabric of Wool and Crimped Acrylic Fiber). Commercial clothing cattle leather, lamb leather and these leathers extracted with n-hexane, and ECSAINE were used for experiments. Experiments were performed on one-layered sample and ten-layered samples. It was estimated that the moisture permeation through the leather extracted with n-hexane occured by a diffusion of water vapour in the minute space in the leather, and the diffusion coefficient Dc was calculated. The commercial clothing leathers and the leathers ex-tracted with n-hexane differed each other in the mechanism of the moisture permeation through the leather. A large moisture absorption was observed in a process of the moisture permeation through the leathers.
