How to Judge the Quality of Leather?

Posted by ILEXLONDON on September 17th, 2016

So, you have a fetish for leather accessories. But do you know there are different qualities of leathers available? If you check minutely, you will find that under every leather product, the leather quality is stamped. There are mainly three types of leathers available namely: full grain leather, top grain leather and genuine leather. But what do these exactly mean? This article describes it all. Therefore, while you will purchase leather jacket, briefcase, shoes or designer handbags on sale from the next time, check the following things to know what to check in the leathers.

•          Full grain leather mainly takes the total grain of hide with all the inherent toughness and imperfections of leather. Therefore, this leather is mainly used to create heavy duty leather items like as utility belts and weapon holsters. Besides, this type of leather is also used widely to manufacture briefcases, dress belts, work boots, dress shoes and many other types of leather products. This leather type is marked naturally with the imperfections from animals like a scar or a brand. But the top manufacturers don’t use this type of flawed hide. The best thing about this leather is that it develops a rich patina with age and this makes it more beautiful.
  
•          Top grain leather is basically the grade found in the fine quality leather goods and this is basically the middle quality leather available among the three types. This type of leather is mainly used to manufacture different types of purses and handbags for women as well as small sized leather goods like as key and card holders collection for men. These days, many of the designer brands stock leather products made of this leather. As this type of leather is mostly colored to get the ultimate look, therefore it ends up being a little plastic and it is not much durable.
  
•          Though the name is genuine leather, but it is not actually real. In fact, this is the lowest quality real leather available from which different products are manufactured. But one demerit of this type of leather products is that these don’t look as good as the best quality leather products. Besides, these products also don’t last for long. Generally, the products made from this leather are widely available in the mall stores, lower leather price items and in the low priced departmental stores. You can choose leather of this quality in case you want something cheap and don’t want to compromise on the quality. But while buying you need to keep in mind one thing that the product will not last for long. So, you should not buy it for everyday use.