Different Types of Leather

Top-Grain Leather

Most of our products are made of pure top-grain leather. Top grain leather is the outermost layer of a hide that is prized for its durability and texture.  The outer layer of a hide will usually have natural markings in the leather that most of our customers have expressed distaste for. Top-grain leather is the solution to that. To create top-grain leather, the outer layer of the hide is processed or sanded to get rid of the natural markings that occur in the outer layer of a hide.

Embossed Leather

Up until recently, crocodile leather was illegal to sell or buy in the United States. To still meet the demand for such luxurious items, the leather industry manufactured “embossed crocodile leather.” All of our crocodile products are made of “embossed leather.” Embossed leather is top grain cowhide leather that is stamped via heat and pressure. The pattern that results closely resembles that of crocodile leather. The benefit to you, our customer, is that you can buy these items, which look like real crocodile leather at only one tenth of the price.

Full-Grain Leather

Full-grain leather is made up of the outer layer of a hide. However, unlike top-grain leather, the natural look of the leather is left untouched and the imperfections remain. This leather is prized for its strength and durability.

Bonded Leather

When a sheet of our Top Grain leather is too small to manufacture an item, we use bonded leather to give a smooth and elegant look. The benefit to using bonded leather is that the normal, natural markings of leather you would see in most large leather items are not evident.

Bonded leather is created by processing (bonding) scraps of leather into a single piece of leather.

Split-Grain Leather

Cowhide is made up of an inner and outer layer. Split grain leather is the inner most layer of a cowhide.  We do not use split grain leather as it is of lesser quality and durability than top-grain and full-grain leathers.