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What is Leather?
In the UK leather is defined by BS2780 as:
Hide or skin with its original fibrous structure
more or less intact, tanned to be imputrescible. The
hair or wool may or may not have been removed. It is
also made from a hide or skin that has been split
into layers or segmented either before or after
tanning.
Note 1: If the leather has a surface coating, the
mean thickness of this surface layer, however
applied, has to be 0.15mm or less.
Note 2: If the tanned hide or skin is disintegrated
mechanically and/or chemically into fibrous
particles, small pieces or powder and then, with or
without combination of a binding agent, is made into
sheets or forms, such sheets are not leather.
Leather Types and Properties:
British Standard (BS2780) Definitions
So what type of leather do you have?
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