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I hope you don't mind if I expand the scope of this thread a little with a few non wrinkle related questions.
Below is a web page from Johnston & Murphy about types of leather (http://www.johnstonmurphy.com/style_leather.aspx). I find it interesting that they never mention corrected grain, and state that "Full grain and top grain are the same.":
Clearly full grain and top grain are not the same, but my question is does removing the very top layer (by sanding/buffing) inherently make all top grain leather only applicable to corrected grain treatment (other than suede/nubuck of course)?
http://www.leatherchemists.org/dictionary.asp
Full Grain: Having the original grain surface of the skin.
Top Grain: The first cut taken from the grain side of a split hide from which nothing except the hair and associated epidermis has been removed.
I would think that the majority of calfskin would be of level 1 grade quality (no wrinkles, or skin damage for external sources).
And while a calfskin would be smaller it would provide more usable quality leather per skin.
On the other hand, Grenson says shoulder “goes straight to garbage” because shoulder has more noticeable stretch marks than bend does. Can you see them around shoulder?
i prefer the nappier suede though - the so-called "shaggy suede"
Usually the shaggy suede is split suede rather than reverse calf.
This site seems to suggest the opposite
http://www.rancourtandcompany.com/leathers
although in my (admittedly cursory) searching in the past, ive never found full consensus on the various definitions of suede and suede-like materials
The full grain / top grain image was taken from a site that sells saddle leather (http://www.saddlebackleather.com/Leather-101).
Definitions of Top Grain can be found at these links that make a distinction between Full Grain and Top Grain:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather)
(http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/en-usd/home/infoandservices/leatherguide/leatherguide.aspx)
(http://www.natanning.com/natcorpleather_glossary.htm)
(http://kaufmann-mercantile.com/grains-of-leather/)
(http://www.waskerd.com/leather.html)
(http://www.gilbergfurniture.com/WhyLeather.html)
(http://leathershoppes.com/facts.html)
I’m not sure if the Top Grain terminology is specific to American English, but there are certainly definitions out there that agree with the diagram as I have shown it. However, I have seen definitions of Top Grain as you have illustrated with your blue and red arrows as well (basically making full grain and top grain synonymous).
http://books.google.com/books/about/Luggage_and_leather_goods_directory.html?id=drRIAAAAYAAJ
Luggage and Leather Goods Manual (1942)
Top grain leather is the best layer as it has the natural surface of the leather which is untouched except to move the hair and epidermis. It is important to remember that top grain, full grain and full top grain are all terms which have identically the same meaning; namely, the surface cut of leather which has not been snuffed, buffed or corrected in any way. Scars, hair cells, healed scratches, horn marks, vein shadows and fat wrinkles are all proof of top grain quality. They are the hall mark of fine leather. Whenever leather is found to be entirely free of any or all of these markings it has invariably been treated in some way to remove or cover them over and thus it cannot be considered as first quality. The finest of top grain leathers must have some of the animals natural hide markings.
(One snippet is missing)
I wonder if Top Grain became more prevalent in the leather quality vernacular as a better term to describe corrected grain to the end user (mostly in the leather furniture business), since corrected grain inherently has a negative connotation.