Thermal insulation : the skin acts as an insulator between the body and the external environment, maintaining a very comfortable temperature for the wearer.Not subject to humidity : this feature makes leather or leather suitable for the production of shoes and clothing while maintaining a high level of comfort thanks to the good transpiration typical of this type of raw material.Hygiene : this quality is obtained only after various working processes that make leather, a 'living' raw material, not subject to the typical phenomena of putrefaction.This characteristic varies according to the type of animal, the type of tanning, the thickness (in general it goes from half a millimetre to several millimetres) and from the finishing, which can give greater resistance to the product. Resistance : the leather has a consistency and a composition that make it very resistant to wear.

The most appreciated features of leather are: The leather has several unique and inimitable characteristics that make it suitable for use both in the field of leather goods, clothing, upholstery and saddlery. In fact, in English, there is no correspondent of the Italian word “cuoio” because the leather intended as leather derived from the animal is generally translated as 'leather', 'leather hide' or 'skin' (depending on the type).įor this reason, when you come across the word leather, it will often be to indicate leather in general, which is why in this article we will use this word indifferently. In the Italian language we use the word leather to indicate generically any type of leather, in reality in the language used within the tanning sector, the word “cuoio” is limited to the field of leather for vegetable tanned shoes (sole leather and insole), while the word 'leather' is used to indicate indistinctly all types of leather, whether vegetable tanned or chrome. What we call skin is the fundamental part (dermis) of the coating that covers every living being and separates it from the external environment, makes it a unitary whole and can be comparable on a large scale to the membrane that separates each cell from outside itself and by extension to the electromagnetic force that makes each atom singularly identifiable and enclosed in a whole. From a microscopic point of view, the skin can be seen as a tight interweaving of numerous collagen fibers, from a macroscopic point of view, it represents the external envelope of living beings. Leather is a product made from the skin of animals which, thanks to a large number of complex treatments, become usable and rot-proof.

Automotive leather hides