Suede leather

Description

A leather finished with a raised nap or pile. The nap on most suede is produced by buffing or abrading the flesh side or split side of leather; the exception is for velvet suede which is produced from the grain side. Good suede has an even nap with dense fibers of a uniform length. It is usually oiled to make it supple but not greasy. In general, velvet suedes are finer than flesh suedes; young animals (kid and calf) also give finer suedes. Suede is not as durable as high quality leather.

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Synonyms and Related Terms

ante (Esp.); pele acamurçada (Port.); mocka (Sven.); suede calf; suede kid; suede splits; suede velvet

Authority

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p.777

• Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982

• Marjory L. Joseph, Introductory Textile Science, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Fort Worth, TX, 1986

• Edward Reich, Carlton J. Siegler, Consumer Goods: How to Know and Use Them, American Book Company, New York City, 1937

• Website address 1 Comment: American Leather Chemists Association Glossary at www.leatherchemists.org

• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suede (Accessed Nov. 9, 2005)

• Hermann Kuhn, Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art and Antiquities, Butterworths, London, 1986