Leather Guide · 5 min read
Full-grain, top-grain, genuine: what leather labels really mean
Three words on a label decide how a bag wears and ages. What each one means, how to tell them apart in a shop, and which one we use.
What full-grain, top-grain and genuine leather mean, how leather is tanned, and how to judge quality before you buy.
How we writeThree words on a label decide how a bag wears and ages. What each one means, how to tell them apart in a shop, and which one we use.
Bark or mineral salts, weeks or a day: how the two main ways of tanning change the way a leather bag looks, feels and ages.
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