I agree! There's got to be a better solution to find out if we are getting a leather couch or not. I heard something about poking your finger into the seat ( back, arms, etc) and if the material is drawn in towards the finger like an Asterix ( direct, lines) IT IS LEATHER. Another way to tell if it is real leather, of course the smell, and the touch, if it is smooth ( I'm sure they will improve on this characteristic soon enough, to make it seem like real leather ), it is NOT leather.
IT WOULD BE GREAT IF SHE KNOWS THE NAME OF THE LEATHER ...BUT SHE DOESNT KNOW WHAT LEATHER SHES TALKING ABOUT ... WHICH IS CALLED.. "SYNTHETIC LEATHER" ITS AN ARTIFICIAL OR SUBSTITUTE LEATHER.
She said if you smell like flower (because of perfume), it doesn't mean you are a flower. Similarly if something smells like leather, it doesn't mean it's leather i.e. it could be fake.
Basically, she suggests that we CAN NOT differentiate between fake and real leather. The best way to ensure that good is made off the real leather is to buy from a qualified store.
I just have this leather shoes. It feel, smells, and looks like faux leather but when i try to fire test it on the tongue area where the full layer are exposed, It doesn't melt and the burn smells like burned real leather. But there's a suspicious area inside the toe where it looks like a fabric from faux leather, and again when i fire test the top of the toe, it doesn't melt and not even burned. I'm confused what kind of leather is this 😅 Can i have your opinion?
The teaching was interesting but I didn't get the solution at the end, we must to check the provenance of the product ? What are the 3 letters she talks about ?
I was born into an artsy family. I create leather equestrian products. My question is this, can I 'tool' fake leather and expect to get the same results?... I do a lot of carving. Very intricate designs. Please someone let me know. I'm also vegetarian as of approx ten years. Thanks
lol, the best way to tell if it is real or fake is to look at the edge cuts of the tissue where there is stitching. Iif it is a clean cut and we can see the back of the leather which is rough and the surface appears polished than it is real leather else it is fake !
Easier way: Press into the material with your thumb. if you see uniform creases, its fake. if you see a wide variation of some deep and some light creases, its real.
When I put on ma leather, and rock to sum Metallica, Delta Parole, Foo Fighters or the Smashing Pumpkins I feel like I can do anything in the whole wide world.
I just got what she said about the flowers after watching it the 2nd time. If it smells like flowers then it's not leather because leather is not flowers. However, smelling it isn't the best way because companies disguise the smell with different things just as women disguising their smells with perfumes. Her accent is sexy. Strong, dominant, and asian, with complete words spoken everytime she speaks. Fire proof Taste. I aint made at her pronounciation since english is her second launguage lol.
misamisatv - 😂😂 Wow. Your smart aren't you? What about the animals and the children who get cancer from dumping their bare feet into chemicals to preserve the skin? Fake leather is best.
@@thegreatoutdoors9644 What are you talking about? High quality and regulated tanneries have safety procedures for their employees. If it is some sham unregulated company making leather then the problem is the company not the leather. Animal skins don't get processed until the animal is already dead so why the heck does anyone or any animal need to dump their feet in chemicals?
You must be living in the Stone Age Leather is processed from hides in tanneries, there are no people splashing around in chemicals, I will take to to one if you like
@@captian1000 Yeah, no insult intended, it was just sad to see that this girl really tried hard while they were making fun of her behind her back. Some women are really insecure, this Asian girl wasn't stopped even by language barrier.
The terminology is very confusing. Full grain and top grain is real 100% leather, bur genuine leather is the lower layer that has been sanded and polished. It has some pvc sprayed on the surface to provide a finish, but this varies a great deal, depending on surface blemishes. On poor quality genuine leather, their may even be pvc filling holes in the skin. Since most of the strength of leather in in the surface, the lower split genuine leather is much easier to split or tear.
@@wilsjane I think in Italy "vera pelle" which means real or genuine leather can be legitimately used to distinguish between real leather and fake leather without any reference to the "type' of leather (re: full, top, suede...)
NON DESTRUCTIVE testing is not that simple. Although real leather is hard to burn it will start to shrink, but not melt. Sheep leather shrinks much faster than cow. Both will burn ultimately, but with a dry flame more like wood, with no melting or black smoke. Real leather will also go out once the heat is removed.
"The fire test" is bullshit: you can run a flame back and forth a few times along the face of a leather or vinyl product and neither will melt or catch fire because you're simply not heating it up enough in any particular spot. Now if you keep the flame in one place for multiple seconds, _both_ leather and vinyl (or whatever other plasticky fake you have) with suffer damage, so that's no way to tell them apart. The only heat test I've heard of that sounded plausible was the melting test, where you would touch the material with a hot (but not glowing) soldering iron and see if it melts: plasticky fakes should melt; genuine leather should simply burn at the surface and turn black at the exact point of contact with the iron. (Never tried it myself though.)
You are wrong. We run a shoes store for years and we test shoes by a lighter and the difference is huge, clearly seen. Genuine leather will resist open flame for over 3 seconds without any burning or smoke, no traces at all wehile fake leather will burn or melt or discolorize after 3 sec. And will have a bad burnt plastic smell.
+d0nj03 gimme dat expensive pair of shoes or that nice jacket and let me expose it to a flame...hahahahaaa how banal is this. nice couch...let me light it!!!!
Your comment really made me laugh. Testing leather with fire is really dangerous as one of my friends found out. After his date assured him that her pants were real leather, he decided to stub his cigarette out on her ass. It gave a whole new meaning to the term "liar liar pants on fire". It also put a quick end to his evening with his hot date. He always wondered how she got home with the big melted hole in her pants.
The term for “real” or “fake” should not be the standard when purchasing leather product. This is a term that came up from brands for marketing. The genuine leather is also real but it is not good quality leather. And how do you call a bonded leather? It is real but just stick together. A lot of brand write “real leather” on their tags for bonded leather. But bonded leather will start pealing just like vinyl after one or two years.
The best wallet I ever had is synthetic leather, and no animals were slaughtered....also, much of the leather from China is dog skin...think about it...China has no space for cows, but stacks of tortured dogs in rusty metal cages...how else can new leather gloves sell for $9.99? They have done DNA tests on cheap leather and found much of it to be dog... Years ago, leather was very expensive, but because of high demand, the cruelty has increased exponentially to keep up with demand for cheap leather. Also, the leather tanning process is very toxic for the workers and pollutes the water. Unfortunately, many people are too vain to consider the suffering that went into producing their accessories.
>The best wallet I ever had is synthetic leather That's a meaningless assertion. The best wallets are made from leather, regardless of what you've had for wallets and your opinions of them. Synthetic leather is junk. >also, much of the leather from China is dog skin No, there's no evidence that dog leather from China making its way into the U.S. is anything other than a rarity. It isn't even common in the Chinese marketplace. Also, who cares? Dogs aren't even remotely an endangered species. >China has no space for cows Is that a joke? Like all PETA morons, you're misinformed, as well as stupid - "China is a major player in the word beef industry in terms of production, consumption and, in recent years, trade." - www.uq.edu.au/agriculture/docs/CAEG/China.pdf Which do you think is more profitable for a major leather manufacturer to work with, giant cow hides or tiny dog hides? Larger hides maximize the efficiency of your workforce and your machinery, and there is a bigger market for them, because a wider variety of products can be made from them. A big leather manufacturer wouldn't dick around with small hides unless they were especially valuable, and dog hides are not. Plus, they can't even legally export them to most countries, including the U.S., so in addition to the loss of profits, they would be taking a legal risk trying to sell them outside of China. The only ones who would bother with dog hides would be small-time operations, and even then they would have to get the hides for free or dirt cheap to make it worthwhile.
