Bonded leather which is also known as reconstituted leather or blended leather, is a term which is used for the man made upholstery material made as a layered structure of a fiber or a paper backer that is a pulp made from shredded leather or coated leather are made by splitting, shaving, or grinding leather that are used to reduce its thickness and then laminating. Bonded leather is made up by shredding leather scarps and leather fiber, and then mixing with the bonding materials.
The mixture is then extruded onto a fiber cloth, or paper backing and the surface is usually embossed with the leather like texture or grain. Color and patterning if any are a surface treatment that does not penetrate like a dying process would. The natural leather fiber contents of bonding leather vary. This manufacturing process is more or less similar to the production of paper. Lower quality materials may suffer from flaking of the surface material in as little as a few years where the better varieties are considered as very durable and retain their patterns and the color even during commercial use.
Because the composition of the bonded leathers and the related products varies considerably and it will become very difficult to predict how the given product would perform over the course of time. When the boconi were started they began with the simple goal to create the handmade bags and leather goods for the daily use and in future it developed into massive production of bags and Leather Company.
Advantages
There is a great and wide range in the longevity of bonded leathers and the related products, some are better quality bonded leather and that are claimed to be superior in durability over the low quality genuine leather. These bonded leathers are used in furniture, book binding and in various fashion accessories. These products are most commonly constructed with different varieties of bonded leather.
These bonded leathers may contain a smaller proportion of leather that are used in the furniture industry, and have some leather exposed in the products surface and hence there may be an actual leather smell. These bonded lathers are environmental friendly that reuses leftover leather without extra framing. The product consistency has no natural defects and minimal batch to batch variations. The highly cutting yield costs efficient and reduces landfill waste. Extensive design options from leather effects to bold geometric design and the significant fuel savings on transport applications.
The actual leather content of the bonding lather varies depending on the manufacturer and the quality level which they are selling. Napa leathers are the leathers that are typically dyed black and they are well known for its soft supple feel. Many imitation leathers try and copy this great feel but will never keep the great durability. All types of exotic skins fall under the exotic skin category because the customer would not want the alligator leather of they would not tell that it was an alligator. The boconi bags and leathers also use the exotic skin. For further information please refer: http://boconi.com/collections/laptop-bags