Leather

It's called "patch leather" because it sounds so much better than "leather scraps."

Patch leather is not a kind of leather but an assemblage made from leather scraps -- hence a patch leather bomber jacket today tends to sell for beneath $40 while a leather bomber jacket tends to start at $160 and go well up from there.

In other words, there is a somewhat strong correlation between what you'll pay and what you'll get.

A person who prepares hides is also called a "tanner" otherwise known as a person who tans hides. That's all I know. :/ sorry it's not that great.

Yes, typically faux leather will keep out water. Because it is made from plastic or synthetic material and not leather, faux leather is usually water repellent and can get wet. Under normal conditions Faux leather should be waterproof, but seems, zippers and other areas may not. That said, Faux leather is probably not the best substitute for something like a rain jacket even if it does keep out the water.

roan

Believe it or not!......Perfume, expensive or inexpensive, doesn't matter. Spray perfume on a q-tip and clean ink off your leather couch, coat or purse!

kind of like shoe polish i think.

It is a morocco leather patterned with irregular grains & creases

Manwah

If you are working with vegetable tanned leather you can use a technique known as boarding leather.

It is a technique that will use 2-3 passes across your work by folding the leather on one end and roll that fold to the other end. One pass left to right will raise the grain and look like lines across the leather.

The more you repeat this the more raised the grain looks and the more supple the leather gets.

You can now use the same technique from top to bottom. This will change the grain and give you more of a grid pattern. Finally you can repeat this technique and go at a diagonal from top left to bottom right. This will give you sort of a diamond pattern and is my favorite.

Suede is commonly used to make boots. Suede is a soft velvetly leather usually made from cowhide.

All upholstery (leather and fabric) from Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams is made in a factory in Taylorsville, North Carolina (USA)

Yes, dry leather has an electrical resistance of around 100kOhm, enough to protect from residential voltage, but much less than what you would want for distribution voltage. However, the resistance of leather falls dramatically (up to 95%) when damp, so rubber gloves are always required when working around high voltage.

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Puncher

Full grain leather is the highest quality of leather that you can get and is made from the entire cowhide. It is thick, making it very strong and durable. It also is costs a lot more than many other types of leather.

Top grain leather is leather that has imperfections on the surface of the hide that are removed by sanding and then refinished. It has also had the "split" layer removed, meaning that the bottom layer of the hide is taken away. Top grain leather is thinner than full grain and is less expensive. It also is more supple.

A joke from Emo Phillips.

My husband got yellow apoxy paint on his orange leather car seats...I tried finger nail polish remover which was working but it was slow moving...so I went under my kitchen sink and grabbed a magic eraser and it worked...be careful not to push too hard because it is abbrasive and can start to take the color and leather off the seat somewhat but it looks better than yellow paint..good luck

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Sting ray

I would think that it isn't, because if it were it would most likely say "genuine leather," action leather is probably synthetic/modified, or something of that nature.

Yes

Yes it will, if left on long enough on high, the heat can create a brown hardened leather, and yes, it looks like a burn mark. this is from first hand

Oh NO

No- faux means false or fake.