Leather Alternatives

[sfrabe]

I understand PU leather and PVC leather alternatives are not safe. I don’t want to use real leather – does anyone know of a safe alternative that has a leather look without being leather?

[evansd2]

This is a common enough question, let’s see if searching has anything good.

https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=artificial%20leather%20order%3Alatest

Yields this:

Name Tags - Bag Tags

Look up the saddle collection, it’s a series of engravable artificial leathers that might work really well

Which points you (from some random super helpful guy on the forum) toward the saddle collection…

https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=saddle%20collection%20order%3Alatest

Which leads you lots of places, but here you go, this is up your alley:

Faux Leather Key Chains from Johnson Plastics

Here is a link to settings for the Johnson Plastics Saddle Collection faux leather. Here is a link to the Saddle Collection at Johnson Plastics. If you don’t have an outlet near you the shipping can be pricey. Another warning is that this material is very floppy, very stretchy and not at all like the stiff, animal leather you show in your picture. I made two tags from it and while they feel like they will tear off at the sight of the first luggage handler they see, they have made it through t…

Which in turn points you to this, an entire thread about this sort of thing!

Vegan Leather Sourcing

Hello! I did a search on the forums but I didn’t see any concrete answers. Has anyone found a vegan leather that’s GF safe?

It’s all out there, you just need to know what rocks to look under.

[sfrabe]

THANK YOU!!! I’m new here.

[evansd2]

Yeah I looked at your stats to see when you joined so I’d know how detailed to get

The forum is so deep at this point, it’s a bit of a maze sometimes.

if you’re super new, you might like this post, it has links to a lot of good info:

New owner (well, almost)

Useful: Overall welcome Maybe too entry level? This will help you figure out how to cut new materials, really useful skill to have. Essential if you’re going to cut anything non PG (which you will, probably) What else might you need?

The trick is to read everything you can until you just cant stand reading anymore, then get a snack and read some more

[sfrabe]

Thanks again!

[noel.santana]

Thank you! loved the site and having the settings

[hierberiadelmar]

I just ordered some leatherette from JDS, it’s really nice. I just need to figure out the settings.