LEATHERSECRETS

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Types & Tanning

Know your leather — full-grain and suede, vegetable and chrome tanning, weights and grades, and how to tell genuine leather from the imitations.

Tanning (leather)

Tanning (leather)

Vegetable tanning

Vegetable tanning

Chrome tanning

Chrome tanning

Suede

Suede

Nubuck

Nubuck

Patent leather

Patent leather

Rawhide

Rawhide

Parchment

Parchment

Vellum

Vellum

Shell cordovan

Shell cordovan

Artificial leather

Artificial leather