Cow leather is one of the types of livestock products that can be used to make various kinds of fashion products. This is due to the fire skin has a better texture, durable and long lasting. Cowhide is one of the most used types in the process of producing leather bags, jackets, leather wallets and leather sandals and other fashion products.
In general, the type of cowhide is determined by a process known as ‘tanning’. Tannery is a process to change raw skin (hide / skin) that is unstable (easily damaged by physical, chemical and biological influences) into a skin that is stable to influence these are commonly called tanned leather (leather). Tanning consists of three stages namely the initial stage (in the form of immersion), tanning and finally the finishing stage. Good quality cow leather is the one that passes through all stages perfectly and is processed with special treatment.
There are several genuine cow leather materials used to make fashion products. This is important to know because it will be very useful if we will buy leather craft bags, leather wallets, or leather sandals both online and at the leather craft gallery store that you visit. Here are some types of leather used to make leather bags, jackets, leather wallets and leather sandals and other fashion products. In general, cow leather materials commonly used to make various kinds of fashion products themselves can be broadly grouped into four different categories. Among them are vegetable cowhide, chrome cowhide, pull up cowhide, and suede cowhide.
Vegetable Cow Leather
Vegetable cow skin or cowhides that is thick and rigid indeed the price is not too expensive when compared to other types of cow leather. Nevertheless the quality of the ingredients is maintained well. Vegetable skin is a type of skin with a hard and rigid character. Named vegetable skin because this skin is obtained from tanning with non-artificial vegetable ingredients. This skin type is slightly reddish white, or in other words pink, but not pure pink, because sometimes there are also those that look white, depending on the success of the tanning process.
Most leather craftsmen use vegetable skin because the price is cheap and many are sold in the market. This type of vegetable skin can still be dyed, because indeed from the tanning process does not use colouring oils that can cover the surface of the skin. However, leather goods enthusiasts prefer goods with genuine colors on vegetable skin because it is a characteristic of cow leather.
Chrome Cowhide Leather
Chrome cowhide is processed using chemical chemicals, salt and chromium sulfate on the skin. In its manufacture, the skin goes through the process of liming (removing hair on the skin and then the particles that leave salt before being replaced with chromium sulfate. The type of chromium can usually be directly felt in your hand, the character of the limp and the surface has been embossed with various textures and colors like the image (texture orange peel) Chrome skin has several types of finishing techniques such as pigmented, pull up, buffed, etc. The surface of the skin on the chrome type sometimes has no visible tick marks, scratches, skin folds as natural, because the finishing process by closing all imperfections .
Chrome cow leather which has thick characteristics but is classified as soft and rather smooth, in terms of price it is indeed more expensive than vegetable skin types. The perfect thickness makes the cowhide chrome is very suitable when used to make formal shoes or loafers.
Cow Leather Pull Up
Pulp up cowhide which is thick, soft, and supple, this leather material is very suitable if used to make super quality leather bags and wallets. This pull up skin uses chemicals in the tanning process, the result is much more flexible and weak. Although it has been given a colour, but the surface of the skin is still clearly visible skin texture that is characteristic when it has become a fashion product.
Pull up cow leather is an aniline cow leather type which is applied with oil and wax. When the skin is stretched it will show colour changes on the base colour. In the process when the skin is stretched, oil and wax will separate and show the colour of the curve will be lighter than the colour on the top surface. Cow skin pull up is also vulnerable if exposed to nail scratches or scratches of objects. But in general, strokes that change colour when rubbed then the colour that changes earlier will return to the colour of the surface base.
Cow Suede Leather
Suede leather is a type of leather that is processed in reverse, which is tanned from the inside of an animal’s skin. Suede cowhide is a skin with soft fur that sleeps at the bottom which is usually hidden, besides that it also has a slightly rough texture (like velvet but is more rough) and tends to be thinner than other skins. Although generally soft, thin and flexible, suede is very easy to get dirty and absorbs liquid quickly, and can damage material permanently.
