Will cowhide shoes fade? What is split cowhide leather made of?

Cow leather is a kind of leather that is made from raw cow hides through processes such as depilation and tanning. Cow leather can be divided into top leather and split leather according to the layers. It takes dozens of processes to make finished leather. Will cow leather shoes fade? This is a topic that many friends are concerned about. Let's learn about it today.

Contents of this article

1. Will cowhide shoes fade?

2. What is split cowhide leather made of?

3. What is cowhide leather?

Will cowhide shoes fade?

Some cow split suede leathers are easy to fade. In comparison, dark colors are easier to fade than light colors. Among dark colors, black and bright red are the easiest to fade. It mainly depends on the color fastness. It is still very difficult to make black and bright red not fade at all. When buying shoes, you can use white cotton cloth to gently wipe the surface of the leather. If it does not fade much even with water wiping (wet wiping), it means that the color fastness is high.

What is split cow leather made of?

Cow split leather is made of genuine leather. Cow split leather belongs to cow second leather, that is, the second layer of cowhide and the cross-section leather below the second layer, also called second leather. The quality of second layer leather is one level lower than that of first layer cowhide. Second layer leather does not have the leather surface texture of first layer cowhide, but cow split leather is also genuine leather, and the price cost is relatively low.

What is cow leather?

1. Cow leather is a kind of leather that has been modified and not easy to rot, which is made from cow hide through processes such as depilation and tanning. Cow leather can be divided into top leather and second leather according to its layers. It takes dozens of processes to make finished leather.

2. "Skin" refers to the untanned skin taken from animals, also known as rawhide; "leather" refers to the material that can be made into leather products after rawhide has been processed through tanning, antiseptic treatment, etc.

3. The production of finished cowhide leather requires dozens of processes: raw hides, soaking in water, fleshing, degreasing, dehairing, alkali soaking, swelling, deliming, softening, pickling, tanning, splitting, shaving, retanning, neutralization, dyeing, oiling, filling, drying, finishing, coating, and finished cowhide leather.

4. Identification level: First-layer cowhide and first-layer patent leather are renamed "cow leather".