[dp] I love when people on the internet have the same questions I do and investigate them so I don't have to... now I have learned that cow horn is not a good replacement for baleen in corsetmaking
though I wonder- part of her problem was not being able to get flat, even sheets, and I've seen flat even sheets of horn sold, are there processing strategies that would make this work better?
> Horn panes were made from cattle or water buffalo horns that were first sawn along their length before being flattened in hot presses. The flattened panes were delaminated into very thin sheets using knives. These sheets were then scraped and polished until they were nearly transparent (Caspall, 224).