Do you know which leather is best for leather sofas?

2025-10-24

Nowadays, many friends always prefer leather sofas when choosing sofas, but there are many types of leather sofas. So how can we choose the best leather sofa? The following is Delo Leather Sofa to take you to understand which leather is the best for leather sofas.

1. Full green skin

Full-grain leather, also known as "full-grain leather," is made from the finest raw leather, with minimal defects, preserving the natural appearance of the soft leather. Its thin layer showcases the leather's natural grain, offering wear resistance and excellent breathability. Full-grain leather is directly blended with blue-warm leather and dyed without excessive chemical treatment, resulting in clearly visible fine pores on the surface, a realistic feel, and excellent breathability.

The price of full green leather is the highest among all types of leather. However, the high price does not lie in the complicated leather making process and the large amount of chemical materials used, but in the quality of the leather. The difference between high-end full green leather and ordinary leather is that when selecting the leather embryo, it must be raised and the bull leather that has been cut by lot. Because the connective tissue of bull leather is relatively dense and the width is large, and the most important thing is the breeding, so that its soft leather has fewer scars, this is the best choice for making high-end leather. The second is the production level, which makes its overall actual effect more high-end and elegant!

If the leather sofa manufacturer uses full green leather, then the surface of the sofa can see the delicate skin pores, and the breathability is also excellent. Full green leather is also called the first layer of cowhide, which is the best material for leather sofas.

2. Half green peel

Semi-green leather, also known as split leather, refers to the thicker outer layer of leather cut from the bottom of the full-green leather. Compared to full-green leather, it has more scars and holes and requires proper polishing before it can be used as sofa leather. Semi-green leather sofas offer a high level of realism, with excellent appearance, texture, and comfort, making them a top-quality leather. However, semi-green leather is also significantly more affordable than full-green leather sofas, making it the preferred choice for most customers. Most living room leather sofas are made of semi-green leather, due to its high quality and reasonable price.

3. Embossed leather

Embossed leather is actually a type of semi-green leather, a thin layer of semi-green leather cut after the leather is removed. This type of leather has more severe scarring and deep eye holes, requiring deep polishing and filling before it is selected for sofa leather. Because the leather surface's visual appeal and texture are weaker, to better address these deficiencies, most processes involve embossing. Semi-green and embossed leather produce more wrinkles when lightly pressed by hand, but their rich colors and varied styles make them easy to choose. If a genuine leather sofa manufacturer uses embossed leather, the visual appearance of the sofa will be relatively ordinary. Due to the extensive processing techniques used in the production of genuine leather sofas, some wrinkles will also appear when the surface is pressed by hand.

4. Cracked skin

Cracked leather is also a semi-green leather. The surface of this type of leather is basically free of defects and has a high utilization rate, but the material is stiff and has poor air permeability. When your hand touches the surface of the leather, there is an obvious waxy texture with a thick coating. Generally, sofas are made of this type of material, and some people call it waxed leather.

Features: The texture and feel are relatively hard. Due to a lot of manual processing, there are not many defects in the appearance, but the artificial marks are more obvious in the appearance, which is a little unnatural. The price is reasonable.

Tips for purchasing: You can compare and distinguish from multiple aspects such as touch, glossiness, material, quality, etc., and pay attention to the difference between real leather and imitation leather to avoid confusion between the real and the fake.