Leather fashion in today’s era is not small. Along with the trend, many craftsmen, using various kinds of leather. However, the most widely used is cowhide. The reason is, besides being easy to find, the use of cowhide is due to the characteristics of cowhide which are thick, fibrous and have long durability.
Not only one type of cowhide is used as the material for making a pair of leather shoes. Many craftsmen develop types of cowhide, especially the development of cowhide based on the type of finishing.
Here are the types of finishing in the manufacture of a pair of cowhide shoes that are much favored by lovers of leather fashion
1. Full Grain Leather
Full grain leather is made from the skin animals, especially cows, and is the top layer, the layer after the hair where the natural fiber pattern will be seen. It is the finest piece of leather and has the best resistance to being used as a raw material for making leather shoes
2. Genuine Leather
Genuine leather is a type of leather that can come from any layer of leather, and has gone through a surface treatment process to give it a more uniform appearance. This process can alter some of the qualities of genuine leather, so the resulting item is often not the best quality. Usually this type of leather is often used for belts and wallets.
3. Split Grain Leather
This type of leather is a layered piece of leather that originates from within the lower tier of the top-grain. The natural surface of split grain leather is not as dense, tight, and useful as full grain and top grain. Therefore, it is often used as a complement to other skin types to significantly change the surface.
4. Suede Leather
This type of cowhide is fairly often used in the manufacture of leather goods. The hallmark of suede leather can be seen from its stringy texture and feels soft to the touch. This texture is formed because the processed skin is the inner side of the skin.
The process of tanning suede leather is a slightly different process from other types of cowhide. After going through the tanning process, the suede leather is sanded and brushed until it has a hairy and smooth surface.
The appearance of suede leather that seems more casual makes it much in demand by young people. Unfortunately, leather goods tend to get dirty easily and change color when exposed to water. If not cared for properly, the seams are also easy to come off.
5. Nubuck Leather Nubuck
looks leather like suede leather with a fibrous surface and a soft texture. The tanning process is not much different.
If suede leather uses the inner leather side, nubuck uses the outer cowhide. This type of cowhide is then processed by sanding and brushing until the texture becomes smooth and even. This process requires a long time and high precision. If there is a pressure difference, the fibers that come out will be uneven.
6. Pull Up Leather
Pull up leather or commonly referred to as pull up leather is leather that is processed with chemical additions to produce a light skin appearance and fades whitish when pulled. Finishing leather on pull up leather is using oil (oil based), so that the surface of the tanned leather looks shiny and shiny and beautifies the appearance.
7. Patent Leather or Brush Of Leather
Patent leather is leather with a very bright, shiny, clean character, and the surface of the leather is uniform or not patterned. Patent leather is a type of finishing that is characterized by a layer of dye that covers the surface of the leather so that the surface of the leather is very uniform and strong. Patent leather is very shiny or very similar to the result of brush off leather.
The finishing is done on patent leather or brush off leather which makes it very uniform to the eye and to the touch. In practice, the manufacture of patent leather is polishing done by hand or machine with precise movements, only skilled and experienced tanners can perfectly succeed in producing this patent leather or brush off leather.
8. Bonded Leather
Bonded leather is leftover leather that cannot be used for leather goods. Then the strips of leather are finely grated and bonded together using polyurethane or latex to a fiber net or sheet.
Bonded leather is often painted to provide color and can also be pressed or embossed to give the appearance of a particular leather style or motif.
9. Pull Up Leather
Pull up leather or commonly referred to as pull up leather is leather that is processed with chemical additions to produce a light skin appearance and fades whitish when pulled. Finishing leather on pull up leather is using oil (oil based), so that the surface of the tanned leather looks shiny and shiny and beautifies the appearance.
In addition, pull up leather will look glossy because it contains wax and oil. Pull up leather is widely needed in the leather industry such as the footwear industry, furniture industry, and other handicraft industries.
10. Crazy Horse Leather
Crazy horse leather or commonly referred to as CH leather is leather that is processed from good quality leather that has been mashed and then given a special wax application to beautify the finishing results of crazy horse leather.
The application of this special wax on the skin will add to the beauty of the leather fiber so that if there is a scratch, the natural color will change to a lighter one.
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