A. How to identify genuine leather
Hand touching: touch leather surface, if smooth, soft, plump,
flexible feel is the dermis; and general artificial surface made of
synthetic leather acerbity, rigid, and poor soft .
Seeing: real leather surface will have a clearer pores, pattern,
yellow calf skin have a more symmetrical fine pores, yak skin has
coarse pores and sparse, mountain sheep have fish scale pores.
Smelling: those who have the leather smell of real leather; and
artificial leather has a strong irritating smell of plastic.
Burning: Tear a litter fiber from the back of real leather and
artificial leather, burning, the one issued by a pungent odor,
formed a lump is artificial leather; any given hair smell, not a
hard nut to crack is the real leather.
B.identifying artificial leather and synthetic leather
With the above four basic identification methods, in order to
compare the identification of artificial leather, synthetic leather
on the obvious. In addition, artificial leather and synthetic
leather has the following characteristics:
B1. press the leather surface with your fingers, there is no
obvious pores wrinkles, such as the press after the wrinkles, nor
will obviously disappear naturally.
B2. leather surface without pores, which is an important feature
of identification of genuine and fake leather.
B3. cut corner burning, flavored, but not hair, the smell of
coke.
C. how to distinguish cow leather, pig leather, horse leather
and sheep leather
Leather types, their characteristics and uses are different. For
example, small cow leather surface, high strength, the most
suitable for making shoes; sheep leather light, thin and soft, is
ideal for leather clothing fabric; pig leather ventilated gas
permeable better performance.
Pig leather: leather surface of the pores round and thick,
stretching from leather in a more sloping. The arrangement of pores
for a group of three, leather surface showing the pattern of many
small triangles
Bovine leather: cattle leather and buffalo leather are called
cow leather, but both also have some differences. Cattle leather
rounded surface of the pores than straight to stretching leather,
the pores close and uniform, irregular, like starry. Buffalo
leather surface of the pores than that in cattle leather thick,
pore length is longer than cattle leather scarce, coriaceous more
relaxed, less than yellow water plump leather's regularly
lines.
Horse Leather: leather surface of the hair are oval-shaped,
slightly larger than that in cattle leather pores arranged in a
more regulatory laws.
Sheep leather: leather grain oblate pores, pores clear, form in
a group, arranged in fish scale.