Thickness
The thickness of an unprocessed skin is more or less 5 mm. Since 5 mm is too thick to be processed, the skin is split lengthwise in two halves: grain leather (upper part) and split leather (under part).
It is possible to split at a chosen thickness: the minimum thickness for furniture leather is 1.0 mm. The most current thicknesses are between 1.2 en 2.0 mm. Exceptionally, furniture leather of over 3.0 mm is manufactured.
“The strongest structure of the skin is situated at the upper part of the grain leather. The fibre structure of the split leather is not compact at all and consequently not suitable for high quality furniture leather.”
Grain image
The grain image is determined to a great extent by the thickness of the skin. Thin leather has a fine grain image, thick a rougher grain image.
By nature the grain image is finer in the centre of the skin and more distinct towards the outskirts. The finest skins keep this natural grain image.
“Lesser pure skins get a mechanical print. The grain image becomes very uniform to smoothen the irregularities of the skin.”
Leather SELECT
thickness 1.2-1.4 mm – fine grain structure
Leather SOFTY
thickness 2.6-2.8 mm – heavy grain structure
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