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All Top Grain Leather

The entire product consists of top grain leather including the areas you sit on day-to-day and the areas you do not have direct contact with, like the back or sides. This option is available for select products.

Leather Finishes

Top grain leather requires a special finish to ensure the upholstery stays protected.

Pigmented

Pigmented leather is buffed or corrected to reduce and conceal natural markings or blemishes. Leather with this type of topcoat will provide excellent wear well if maintained properly.

  • Excellent durability with minimal maintenance
  • Minimal colour variation
  • Most practical, least likely to fade or stain

Semi-Aniline

Semi-aniline leathers offer good medium protection from day-to-day use. Semi-aniline leather may be slightly buffed, but no pattern or embossing has been used to alter the texture

  • Medium protection
  • Light topcoat helps control fading
  • Softens and relaxes, without affecting wear, but rather increasing comfort

Full aniline

Full aniline is regarded as the highest quality of leather, often seen as the most authentic. Full aniline leather will show all natural marks, grain and colour variation.

  • Most natural looking
  • Develops a beautiful patina over time
  • Superbly soft and supple with rich, penetrating colour
  • Direct exposure to sunlight or heat sources, will result in fading or discoloration

Leather Relaxes

Leather is a natural skin, even when used as an upholstery cover. It has limited elasticity and will soften and relax with use. This is a natural characteristic of genuine leather and is not a manufacturing defect. Your leather upholstery will become more relaxed and loose over time, resulting in increased comfort.

Leather Testing

Palliser maintains a corporate leather lab staffed by experts with extensive tannery experience. We perform a physical inspection of each hide and use a colour matching assessment using a spectrophotometer.

We test our leathers for:

  • Light & rub fastness
  • Finish adhesion
  • Flexibility
  • Seam & tear strength