Top Grain Leather used in our furniture production

What is Top Grain Leather

Gop Grain Leather used by us refers to Top Grain Cattle Leather,NOT the top grain or bottom grain Buffalo Leather.
Top Grain Cattle Leather is processed from the First Layer of the natural skin of Cattle, it has the natural poles if you look closely at them, which you can not find in the synthetic leather.

Cattle leather vs Buffalo leather

Though the two above are all called Real Calf Leather,it is well known in the Leather Industry that the Cattle Leather is much better and more expensive than Buffalo Leather.
The Real Calf leather made from cattle is with full and dense grains in the surface and well-stacked, it is stronger in the intensity and tenacity, better in the elasticity, and feels softer compared to buffalo leather.
Cattle leather can stay glossy and intact through a long time, while the buffalo leather, although it has the same natural poles as cattle leather, it is with less density and elasticity, and easy to break in the usage
Cattle leather is more expensive than buffalo leather due to its better quality.
In the market, many sellers use buffalo, but call them to be "Top Grain Leather" or even "Italian Leather".

First layer vs Second layer

The natural skin of calf or buffalo can be divided into two layers when it is crosscut in the process.
The first layer leather is the upper layer with grains and intensive fibers, sometimes even with wrinkles and imprints as it is natural. It is usually the total piece of the leather when our factory buys it from the leather shop or factory for production.
The second layer leather is the lower layer leather with loose and sloppy fiber, which must be processed together with chemicals such as polytene, adhesion agent, tectoria technique of PVC or PU and spray paintings. And it can be sold part by part not as a whole piece.
The easiest way to tell first layer leather from the second one is, the first layer leather is able to have wrinkles, while second layer leather is not.
Sometimes we would hear from customers saying that the cushions have wrinkles or imprint when she unpacked. This is very normal. Most of the wrinkles or imprints can be recovered after a time as the leather is breathing and bounced. Ony the cushions made of second layer real leather or synthetic leather, you can hardly find wrinkles or imprints on it.
As for the price, First layer leather is almost twice higher in the cost than the second layer leather. Some sellers use the second layer leather to reduces the cost to half, but after 6-12 months the surface of the leather is falling off and the cushions are worn.





Between is a customer who feed backed to us after he compared between our Top Grain Leather and the Bottom Grain Leather from other sellers: