Suede, velour, nubuck, split leather, and buckskin - they all look like they have a raised nap, but what is the difference between these four types of leather?
Or maybe they are surprisingly the same thing?
We looked into the characteristics and differences of each.

What is Suede?

Suede is primarily made from the leather of calves, goats, sheep and pigs.
The back side of the leather is buffed with sandpaper.
The softer the suede, the higher quality it is considered to be, and there is silky suede, made by brushing the underside of fine-grained animal leather such as calfskin or sheepskin with fine sandpaper.
Silky, of course, comes from silk.

It seems that most of the drawings are of small animals, with the backs of the animals buffed with sandpaper.

What is Velour?

Like suede, the reverse side is buffed with sandpaper, but it is often made from the leather of large animals with coarse fibers, such as adult cows.
Unlike suede, which has a fine nap, leather has a coarse nap and long fibers.

[voice icon="http://kawanishikaban.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/kao_sl.jpg" name="Kawanishikaban" type="l"]Hearing it this way, suede does seem more luxurious after all.
So what about nubuck?[/voice]

What is Nubuck?

Unlike suede or velour, it is finished by buffing the grain (top) surface of the leather with sandpaper.
Compared to suede, the fibers are very short and the feel is delicate.

Yes, yes. The reverse side of velour and suede is brushed, while the silver side (front side) of nubuck is buffed.
The bag in the picture has been vintage processed.[/voice]

What is split leather?

Cowhide is thick, so it is usually split into two or three pieces. The pieces other than the top grain are called floor leather.
Since it does not have a silver surface, it is less strong.
However, it may be suitable for making samples etc.

[voice icon="http://kawanishikaban.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/kao_sl.jpg" name="Kawanishikaban" type="l"]We call the back side of the silver surface (surface) of leather the floor surface.[/voice]

Buckskin

Buckskin gives the impression of having a strong, brushed texture, but it is actually a word that refers to male deer.
I went into more detail about buckskin in yesterday's blog, so be sure to check it out.
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Characteristics of deerskin and important points to note when buying items | Bag sewing factory | Kawanishi Kaban
Deerskin is the leather of a deer.
What kind of image do you have of deerskin?
As we have seen before, most of the leather on the market is cowhide.

The "buck" in buckskin doesn't mean "back" or "back" or anything like that, but rather means "buck" of a male deer.

By the way, buckskins means deerskin half pants.

Thank you for reading to the end.

This time I looked into something that I had been wondering about for a long time.
When you're working in a sewing factory and doing manufacturing, you realize there are actually a lot of things you don't know.

By the way, I've added speech bubbles this time too ♪