8. Faux leather
‘Faux’ means ‘fake’ in French. Faux leather is a fabric that looks like leather, but is actually made out of other materials. It does not contain any, not even 0.0001% of leather at all and still...
7. Bi-cast leather
Bi-cast products have the visual aesthetics of expensive, natural top-grain leather, but at substantially less cost, so it appears very attractive to the unsuspecting consumer. With natural leather, the stre...
6. Bonded leather
Bonded leather started showing up at furniture retailers in 2007. Bonded leather is a plastic material (generally polyurethane or vinyl), backed with fabric and then a layer of latex mixed with a smal...
5. Synthetic Leather
From early in the 20th century there has been a consistent attempt to produce a leather ‘substitute’. The main motivation is cost cutting. To cut costs and present the consumer a leather product at...
4. Aniline dyed leather vs Pigmented leather
All the leathers(Full Grain and Corrected Grain) are first dyed via immersion in an aniline dye solution. Through this process aniline dye particles penetrate into the leather, accentuating the ...
3. Full Grain Leather vs Corrected Grain Leather
* Full Grain Leather Every Top Grain Leather has some kinds of markings such as scars, insect bites, wrinkles, veining which are natural characteristics of genuine leather. If there are few blemishes in...
2. Top Grain Leather vs Split Leather
All leather hides have to be split because a hide is too thick to upholster or use in any type of manufacturing. The hide goes into a machine where a blade 'splits' the hide into two layers. The...
1. Definition of Leather
Leather is a material created through the tanning of hides(skins of large animals). Although we can process the skins and hides of the horse, pig, kangaroo, sheep, goat, deer, reptile, seal and even th...
