Leather Experts Crack The Puzzle Of Leather

Here world clothing shoes The Xiaobian of the hat net introduces the experts in the industry to solve the puzzle of leather.

The skin of the first layer, two layers of skin and the skin of the lychee stripe are all genuine leather.

Cheap leather shoes, nameplates marked on the two layers of leather; expensive fashionable leather jacket, the nominal "wash skin", in fact, it is only PU's. They are also known as head skin, water dyed skin, lacquer, embossed leather, frosted skin, suede leather, and artificial leather. Although these terms are quite common, many consumers may not know what they are. along with Leatherwear Processing technology is becoming more and more advanced, and there are more and more varieties of leather. When consumers purchase, it is far from enough to distinguish the authenticity from the thickness and density of leather surface. Mastering leather knowledge and understanding the characteristics of leather is very helpful for consumers to purchase and use leather goods.

　 Consumer

Name is numerous, who is dermis not clear.

Miss Fang of Beijing recently wanted to buy a pair of spring single shoes. After searching the Internet, she found that the price difference of Lady leather shoes was very large. "There are four to five hundred pairs, and there are less than one hundred yuan a pair, and they all call leather shoes. They feel a little bit smart." Netizens "Mo Jia evil" also said, "want to buy a pair of middle tube boots, very like, but buyers say synthetic cowhide is hesitant, because the psychological expectation is cowhide, mother said synthetic cowhide can not be regarded as cowhide." I asked the seller if it was PU, and the seller said it was better than PU, and now is really confused.

Reporters entered the "leather shoes" on Taobao, and found 196 million 950 thousand products. Reporters saw that in addition to the variety of styles, prices are very different, the price of four hundred or five hundred yuan or even more than 1000 yuan, and cheap only tens of dollars.

In addition, reporters also found that in leather shoes, leather goods, leather products and other products, lacquer, oil, pressed skin, frosted skin, leather and other leather products of various kinds, Miss Fang told reporters that she had bought a leather bag, when the seller told her that it was genuine leather, but after getting the hand, it was found, "how to see how not like leather, the seller said, this is" oil skin ", the surface looks very smooth, like PU, but not PU, is the real leather. In fact, many consumers are confused about the distinction between leather products: cheap leather shoes, nameplates are marked with two layers of leather, and the fashionable fur coat with high price is called "wash skin", which is actually only PU's.

The reporter visited the two different grades of Beijing Jin Yuan shopping mall and hand held goods market. In the footwear counters, the reporter roughly counted, more than 80% of the brand shoes on women's shoes are marked with cowhide, sheepskin, cow's Velvet leather, and so on, while the brand shoes with the top layer of cowhide are very few. Sales staff told reporters, "marked" cowhide "is the first layer of cowhide. If it is two layers of skin, it will be specially marked, not the first is the first layer of skin. Although footwear products must be labeled according to footwear quality standards, they are still not particularly refined. For example, some shoes only indicate the skin of lacquer, but not whether they are cowhide.

Leather sellers told reporters that leather processing technology is becoming more and more advanced and leather varieties are more and more. Enterprises have been able to make targeted products according to the characteristics of leather. In addition, due to the increasing variety of leather products, it is far from enough to distinguish the authenticity and the type from the thickness and density of the leather surface. For example, in order to enable consumers to distinguish products, the new mandatory standard of leather shoes products implemented in Shanghai in October 1, 2003 clearly stipulates that leather shoes made of natural leather such as cow hide and pigskin must be marked "top layer leather" or "two layer leather" on the price tag. Knowledge of leather and knowledge of leather properties and strength of expansion will help greatly in leather design and manufacture, renovation and cleaning of leather industry, repair of damaged products, and purchase and use of leather products by leather products.

　　 expert

Lacquer is a kind of processing technology.

The reporter interviewed Chen Zhanguang, Deputy Secretary General of China Leather Association for various leather products and dazzling names.

Chen Zhanguang introduced that the processing of leather is very complex, and the finished leather needs to be processed by dozens of processes. There are many kinds of it. According to the material, sheep leather, cow leather, horse leather, snake leather, pig leather, crocodile leather and so on can be divided into two layers of leather, whole grain leather, suede leather, modified leather, adhesive film leather, compound leather, and coated split leather.

Chen Zhanguang told reporters that leather products purchased through normal channels, if the real leather will be identified by the association's leather logo, can be assured of buying. In addition, the reverse is regular products, especially footwear products have their relevant standards, so the quality is also guaranteed.

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At present, the leather products commonly encountered by consumers include two layers of leather, suede leather, lacquer and synthetic leather. Chen Zhanguang introduced, "two layers of leather also belong to the real leather." He explained to reporters that the top skin and two layers of leather were classified according to leather, including leather, shaving leather, embossed leather, special effect leather and embossed leather. The two layer leather was divided into two layers of pig and two layers of leather. The two layer of skin is the lower layer of the dermis. Two layers of leather are cheaper and harder, and are also common in the market. In fact, the two layers of skin and three layers of leather are very good, and can adapt to the low and medium market.

The two layer of cowhide is the second layer leather of cowhide, which is coated with a layer of PU resin. With the change of technology, it has also been made into various grades, such as imported two layers of cowhide. Because of its unique technology, stable quality and novel varieties, the price and grade of the top grade leather are no less than that of the top layer of leather. The skin washes of young people nowadays are not genuine leather, but the surface of polyurethane. This material looks beautiful, good handle, low price, but it is not wear resistant, easy to break.

Synthetic leather or composite skin is the leftover leftover material made of various raw leather after finished by machine. And now the market is more popular "litchi stripe cowhide", "snake skin pattern", "ostrich skin" and so on are using patterned flower plates (aluminum, copper) to warm up the leather surface to suppress all kinds of patterns, and become a style of leather.

In addition, lacquer and so on, is a processing technology, refers to the leather or PU skin and other materials on the lacquer, its characteristics are bright and natural color, waterproof, moisture-proof, not easy to deformation, easy to clean and take care of characteristics. It can not be simply determined that it is real leather or not real leather.

　 How to choose:

Through characteristic identification

As for how to identify all kinds of leather products, Chen Zhanguang told reporters that knowing the characteristics of various materials will be able to identify the materials used for various products. Different types of leather have different characteristics and uses. For example, cattle leather is thin, high strength, the most suitable for making leather shoes and leather goods; sheepskin leather is light, thin and soft, and is the ideal fabric for leather garments; pig leather has good vapor permeability and vapor permeability.

For example, Chen Zhanguang said, "two layers of leather are relatively hard, and the price is cheaper than the first layer of leather." Of course, two layers of leather's flexibility, breathability and so on also have no head skin, not as good as the first layer skin wear-resisting and folding resistance, and the service life is shorter than the head skin. "

After all, the two layers of leather are genuine leather, while the characteristics of synthetic leather and synthetic leather which are quite different from genuine leather are very obvious. For example, there is no obvious pore wrinkle on the leather surface with fingers. If there is wrinkle after pressing, it will not disappear naturally. There is no pore on leather surface. This is an important feature to distinguish the true and false leather. The corner burns and tastes, but not the odour of the hair.

So, in Genuine leather There are several ways to identify it. Hand touch: that is to say, the leather surface is touched by hand. If it feels smooth, soft, plump and elastic, it is genuine leather. Generally, synthetic leather surface is harsh, rigid and soft. It is seen that the leather has a clearer coat and pattern, and the yellow cattle skin has more symmetrical pores. The yak skin has coarse and sparse pores, and the goats have scaly pores. Smell: all leather has the smell of leather, and artificial leather has strong odor of plastic.