What is the difference between blended leather and leather?

Answer 1

• When purchasing any furniture with leather upholstery for your home there are many things to consider as to which leather is worth purchasing for your home and why you are paying the price you are for each type of leather group. The list of types of different leathers can go on forever, but here are your basic leather groups that you will mostly find in a local furniture store. Bonded or Blended, Full Grain, Top Grain, Aniline, etc. least expensive to most expensive respectfully.

• Bonded" aka "blended" leather furniture is a leather material that is composed with various scraps of leather pieces and glued together using a denim material as a foundation, sanded for any imperfections,then dyed to a desired color and topped with a polyurethane coating for extra durability. This is a very common leather you will find in almost all furniture retail stores that advertise leather sofas for under a thousand dollars ($1,000).

• Bonded leather furniture is usually categorized in many different ways, some are thicker than others and some are just a thin layering on the seating area of a sofa. However, although Bonded or blended leather furniture is not really a true 100% leather, its is very popular and durable for every day use and even recommended for house holds with pets and younger children. This is probably due to the way Bonded or blended leather is more resistant to wear and tear, as opposed to true 100% leather, that is much like human skin that will scratch or tear with excessive abuse or sharper objects.

Answer 2

Leather is leather, blended leather is not leather.