What is Full-Grain Leather?
This leather is a smooth leather from the grain split. The natural grain, even with small skin imperfections, has not been altered. This means that the leather must not be sanded or buffed. Semi-aniline leather and aniline leather belong to the full-grain leathers because they retain the natural grain pattern.
Processing of Full-Grain Leather
Full-grain leather is generally very expensive because the surface is more natural and has little to no pigment layer. If a thicker pigment layer were applied to the leather, the natural properties of the leather would be lost, and it would no longer be considered full-grain leather. If the leather is embossed but the natural grain is still visible, it is still considered full-grain leather.
Additional sources (accessed 28.02.2019):
- leder-info(punkt)de/index.php/Vollnarbiges_Leder
- lederzentrum(punkt)de/wiki/index.php/Vollnarbiges_Leder
