Re-trimming interiors leather vs leathercloth

You must have a cheap source for leather !

Leather is a market for rip-offs, that's for sure. However much of the difference is in how you measure that "square foot". Leathercloth comes on a wide roll, and you can use every inch of it. As it's wide, layout is easy.

Leather comes from surprisingly small cows (usually young bullocks, actually) and your wastage is huge because it's so difficult to get good utilisation from such a small and odd-shaped hide.

if you're sewing your own, then don't be afraid of leather. It's quite easy to sew it, despite the mystique - any basic leatherworking book will give you the basics, although I've not seen anything on car upholstery. The main problem for the amateur is that you have to make things "right first time" - no unpicking seams and re-sewing with leather.

Not only that, but the stupid animal has usually snagged itself on a barbed wire fence right in the middle of the bit you want to use.

Ron Robinson

Andy Dingley wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Or an expensive source of leathercloth! :) Any recommendations on leathercloth suppliers?

The leather sources I found were: