Types of leather

The finished leathers can be divided in three major groups according to their surface structure, namely full-grain, suedes and split leather.

Full-grain (smooth leather)

They represent the biggest group of the finished leathers. The grown final layer of the corium, the grain read more...

• Natural 

  Many types of leathers are finished after the tannage without further dying operations.

• Aniline 

  These are leathers that are dyed after the tanning processes during the wet-finishing with soluble dyestuffs.

• finished

  • full-grain 

  • corrected 

  • buffed 

Split-leather 

Sie sind durch das Abtrennen der den Narben tragenden Schicht auf beiden Außenflächen rau.

• finished 

  Split leathers need to get an altogether thicker finish layer in order to get a surface comparable to finished full-grains as the rough split surface has to be covered.

• coated 

  Coated split leathers are laminated with a foil in contrast to the top coats that are built-up through step-by-step layers.

• suede 

  Suede split leathers are mostly buffed on the upper split side so that also in this case a check of the flesh-side is possible which will indicate if a flesh- or middle-split is present.