All About Different Leathers. What makes good leather good.

[Superfluous]

I'm not sure if this has been posted, but I came across this from one of the affiliate stores. It's a pretty informative write up on leather and bag quality. I just thought I'd share.

http://www.saddlebackleather.com/18-...r#leathertypes

 

[bwp]

Thanks, interesting read.

 

[bjornb17]

Thanks.... i previously thought that full grain and top grain were the same based on stuff i've read.

 

[DWFII]

Originally Posted by bjornb17

Thanks.... i previously thought that full grain and top grain were the same based on stuff i've read.
Be very careful about what you read...especially on the 'net. There are some very respected sources--specifically the LIA (Leather Industries of America and the International Council of Tanners---that consider full grain and top grain as one and the same thing...or near-as-nevermind. http://www.leatherusa.org/i4a/pages/...fm?pageid=3286

Full Grain leather is defined by Leather Industries of America (LIA) and the American leather manufacturing industry that it represents as: "The grain split of a hide from which nothing has been removed except the hair and associated epidermis." ... The above definition is consistent with the official definition promulgated by the International Council of Tanners (ICT), the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies (IULTCS), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) which is as follows: "Leather bearing the original grain surface as exposed by removal of the epidermis and with none of the surface removed by buffing, snuffing or splitting." Top Grain leather is the same as full grain leather.