Types of Leather for Making High-Quality Shoes
 There are numerous types of leather utilized by well-reputed companies to produce high-quality leather shoes and accessories. In this article, we are going to describe the various varieties of leathers.
 1. Full Grain Leather
Full Grain Leather is a type of leather material that retains the natural characteristics of the skin itself both in texture and pattern. This skin type is utilized as shoe material without going through a modification process to remove natural strokes found on the skin. Full Grain Leather is the kind of skin that has the highest quality and durability, making these material shoes have a high price tag. As the best type of skin, Full Grain Leather certainly has many advantages, besides being very strong and durable, shoes with this kind of skin are simple to take care for and clean and are not easily scratched, torn, and peeled. As we get older, Full Grain Leather material will appear better and form a patina if treated appropriately. In addition to the Full Grain Leather which maintains its horizon, there are other forms of skin that are often used as shoe base materials, namely Corrected Grain Leather. This kind of skin is part of Top Grain Leather which has a lot of mark/blemishes, therefore it must go through a correction process by removing part of the surface that is not perfect. Corrected Grain Leather is divided into several types based on the processing method.
 2. Nappa
Nappa is a type of skin that is still included in a part of a full-grain leather type to make various men leather shoes and women leather shoes. But the key ingredient of Nappa is made from the skin of a lamb or calf. The type of Nappa leather material has its advantages. The benefits of this sort of skin are shiny in comparison with full-grain leather types. Unfortunately, this skin is easily cracked and broken, particularly if the dye used is not good. Because of this character, Nappa skin is often used as a coating on the inside of the shoe. This kind of skin is rarely used as the key ingredient of safety shoe leather because of its weaknesses which are incredibly vulnerable to cracking and breaking, therefore, it is not capable to protect users of safety shoes.
 3. Pull-Up Leather
Pull-Up Leather was first known in the 1920s and has become one of the favored materials for everyday shoes and aerospace shoes. Pull-up skin itself is a type of skin which has gone through a procedure of correction with coloring using aniline which mixes with the oil on the skin. If you stretch or pull this type of leather, there will be a brighter color change effect. This is the reason for naming this type of skin as Pull-Up. Pull-up skin has high versatility and sturdiness and a soft and elastic texture. Shoes with pull-up major material will look awesome as the formation of patina over time is caused by the natural oil content contained in the skin. If you scratch your nails or other sharp objects, scratches will be obviously noticeable on this type of skin. But don't worry, since the scratches on your shoes will disappear just by rubbing them by hand.
 4. NuBuck Leather
NuBuck is said to be one of the world’s greatest materials to produce high-quality leather shoes. The phrase Nu back is derived from New and Buck (skin). Nubuck is made from the outer part of animal skin. That’s why it is much better and lasts longer. The texture is a lot rougher compared to other materials. In order to make it smooth, they apply the rubbing technique gently on the surface. The rubbing process will make leather’s surface very soft and smooth like velvet.
Those are the best 4 types of leathers used for making high-quality leather shoes.
