When "Leather" Isn't Exactly What You Think.

        When “Leather” Isn’t Exactly What You Think.

In the spirit of honest consumerism, a term that’s always heard in furniture commercials is “bonded  leather”. I finally asked what exactly that was, since I had never seen a “bonded” animal.

It turns out that it is created by taking scraps of leather and chopping them into very small pieces, soaking them into a soup-like mixture, and then pouring this onto a fabric, which is then baked into a sheet. It then has the outer look of leather, with a cloth backing.

You certainly can’t expect this “product” to have the wearability of real hide leather. That’s why it can be sold so much cheaper.

As in all things, know what you are buying.