Hand Made Top Grain Leather Cover with Card Slots Case for Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (Blue)

Description

"When leather comes into the factory, it is fairly thick so they usually cut it down into 3 layers. The top layer is called a top grain, the second layer is called a split hide, and the third is usually scrapped." The top grain is the best cut of leather. It is the toughest and most durable. Within the top grains is usually a grading system. The highest grade leathers come in the most pure with the fewest imperfections which means they did not have to be touched up. Therefore they feel the nicest or they have the best hand. This is not to say that you will not find any markings. High grade leather will still have markings like stretch marks small bug bites or barbed wire fence scratches because this is considered the beauty of leather. Some markings are just too big to deal with and may compromise the leather so in this case the leather will need to be fixed. The more imperfections the leather has, the more correcting it will need. The more correcting required, the lower the grade. To correct the leather, the imperfections are shaved out, smoothed, stamped with a gaining pattern, and then a protective coating is applied. The lower grades of the top grain leathers could be corrected up to as much as 80%. When you get into the lower grades the leather will begin to feel more like plastic because of all the correcting they have had to do. Split hides are the second layer of leather. So in the beginning they will have no graining and appear to be suede. As in the lower grades of the top grain the leather will have to be ironed flat and stamped with a grain. After stamping a protective coating is also applied. These will be easy to pick out because the graining will be very uniform