The knowledge of leather

2024-02-08

The knowledge of cowhide leather

Today I want to say something about the material, share some of the knowledge and insights I have seen or learned in the furniture industry, talk about the knowledge of leather and how to buy leather sofa. From the classification of leather, how to identify leather, leather sofa how to maintain these three themes to share.

The category of real leather

The leather sofa, generally the leather refers to cowhide leather, cowhide inside and points cow skin, buffalo skin, rhino skin (it is said that there are pig skin, of course, only heard, really have not seen the furniture made of pig skin), rhino skin I have not seen, what kind of specific, not very clear. Cowhide and buffalo skin are more common, cowhide surface pores are round, pores are tight and uniform; The pores on the surface of buffalo skin are larger than that of yellow skin, the plush is loose, the number of pores is rare, the cortex is more relaxed, and the skin is not as fine and plump as yellow skin. Cattle leather is generally used in the middle and high-end sofa, and buffalo leather is used in the low-end leather sofa.

The following is mainly about cow skin, cow skin inside and divided into layers of cow skin, two layers of skin, two layers of skin is not detailed, the first layer of cow skin inside is roughly classified: lychee grain skin, oil wax skin, cow skin, medium and thick skin, all green skin, abrasive skin (niuba leather), napa skin, pure imported full grain skin (kneaded grain skin)

Lychee leather

It is a kind of skin with a relatively low grade in the first layer of cow skin, the thickness of the skin is between 0.8-1.2mm, and the touch is slightly harder than the green skin, but it is still very wear-resistant, and the market price is relatively cheap. This kind of leather is very common, many leather sofas, leather chairs are made of this kind of leather.

Oil wax leather
Oil wax leather, also known as antique leather, is a kind of leather produced in the first layer of cowhide after grinding oil waxing and other processes to achieve an antique artistic effect, the advantage is that there is a retro texture, the disadvantage is that the leather is hard, the feeling is not very good. Those who like this antique style like it very much, those who don't like it very much. This leather is mostly used on American-style leather sofas.

Cowhide leather

Cow skin, a kind of skin with cow hair, which retains the natural hair of the cow. This kind of leather is found on loungers and recliners. It's almost never used on the couch leather sofa.

Wrestle top grade cowhide

It is a kind of top layer of cattle skin, the thickness of the skin is 1.0-1.2mm, the texture is soft, and the touch is very soft. Good green skin retains the natural pores of cowhide, as well as blood vessels, and retains a good natural state; Thin coating, can show the natural pattern of the skin beauty, wear resistance, good permeability; Leather watch can clearly see fine pores, realistic, excellent air permeability. Used for high-grade sofa, high-grade leisure chair. This kind of green skin is also one of the most used leather, the market acceptance satisfaction is very high, very popular.

Nubuck leather

Nubuck leather is similar to oil wax leather, and the special grinding process on the surface of the skin makes the surface of the skin polished into a layer of skin similar to flannelette, which is very soft and comfortable to touch. Niu Ba leather is used in shoes or bags above more, in recent years, this kind of leather has slowly become popular in China.

Wrestle Medium thickness leather

This kind of skin is relatively thick, the thickness is 1.2-1.5mm thick, characterized by thick, wear-resistant, the surface is a drop grain but deeper than the drop grain of green skin, we generally call this texture called litchi thick skin, but it is much softer than litchi skin.

NAPPA Nappa leather

Napa skin is made of cow skin grain, tanned by vegetable tanning agent and alum salt, without embossed, no modification or slight modification to maintain the natural texture. The surface coating is very thin, keeping the original skin feeling to the maximum. Now all we hear about Napa leather, in fact, strictly speaking, can not reach the real Napa grade, most of them are just imitation Napa leather processing process, the skin surface into a full grain or natural grain.

Kneaded leather

Kneaded leather(full grain leather), obviously, this is a very high-grade pure imported leather, skin embryo including processing is completed in foreign countries; The first layer of cowhide is based on tanning and other processes, making the skin retain the natural pores and textures of the leather as much as possible, and it does not feel as smooth as the green skin, it is a little rough to the touch but very soft, just like human skin. It is similar to abrasive leather, but it is not so obvious that abrasive leather is polished, the elasticity is very good, and you can see a lot of natural pores by pulling hard.