It can be hard to know what leather products are real and which ones are fake or poor quality. Here are a few essential things to help you understand what your buying!
There are 4 main classes of leather: Full Grain, Top Grain, Genuine and Bonded leather.
Full Grain Leather- Longest lasting, Premium Leather. Its strongest and usually best looking because of the patina it gains over time.
Top Grain Leather- Lasts a long time but does not "wear in" like Full Grain, usually costs more and is stiff because of treatments
Genuine Leather- is the leftover leather from splitting the premium leathers (see third photo). Its technically still leather but does not last the way that you would hope, it has no grain and tears much easier.
Bonded Leather- is the leather equivalent of particle board. It doesn't last and isn't worth what people try to charge for it.
3 comments:
This is super helpful! I am such a novice at this stuff but now I'll be better prepared when I'm at the store! Thank you!
I always wondered why my "genuine" leather sucked. I think that all of my broken belts have been that garbage. This was useful to me. Thanks.
Im Glad it helps! It sure does make a difference to have these things explained!
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