What do the leather terms mean?
Split: Most leather hides have to be split because they are too thick to use in any type of manufacturing. The hide goes into a machine where a blade “filets” the hide into two hides. The bottom hide is known as split leather. This hide can be sanded down (corrected) and embossed with a consistent graining pattern to be used on certain products to achieve certain price points. A split leather is still 100% leather, and has all the same finishing treatments as the top grain portion. Top Grain: In the above process the top grain portion is the top portion of the hide. It is generally used in the areas that receive more wear since the fiber of top grain is more compact than that of split grain. Full Grain: Is top grain leather that uses the grain of the hide. No correction is made to the grain. Corrected Grain: Top grain leather that has been sanded down to reduce some of the visual and natural characteristics. Of the various types of corrections, the most common is to sand down, and comp
