Leather Alternatives

[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.