Cork Leather checks all of the boxes for use on furniture.
Vegan Cork Leather checks a lot of boxes when it comes to durable, practical, sustainable, planet-friendly, eco-conscious, and natural alternatives to leather. In point of fact, it checks all of them.
Sustainable
Durable
Vegan
Planet-Friendly
Waterproof
Stain Resistant
Scratch Resistant
100% European Origin
Fashionable
While the sustainable, vegan, planet-friendly character of using Cork leather for upholstered furniture is an important story, we know that cork leather’s durability and cleanability are what make it the best alternative to leather for furniture.
When we talk about the durability of a material for furniture use, the Wezenbeek test is the American standard. It measures the ability of a fabric to resist surface wear caused by flat rubbing contact with another fabric. For example, heavy-duty fabrics suitable for commercial use rate at 30,000 cycles or more and residential fabrics rate at 15,000 cycles, which is considered average. cork leather from PortugaliaCork is rated at 120,000 cycles so it blows away the durability standards for even the heaviest uses.
Another aspect of durability is resistance to scratching and marking. Many natural kinds of leather, while beautiful, will mark when lightly scratched with a fingernail, for example. Cork is highly resistant to marking or scratching with use in any active household. As demonstrated in the video below, cork leather will withstand aggressive attempts to mark it. Even using a key!
Cleanability is one of the most valued features of a performance fabric or leather. Cork is waterproof which makes it inherently stain resistant. Red wine is no match for cork leather and even sharpie is not necessarily a catastrophe.
1. Red wine on Cork
2. A day later the wine is dry.
3. A little hand soap and the stain is gone.
Rubbing alcohol can be a savior with really tough stains such as a Sharpie mark. Please test on a discrete area first and then blot gently. Do not scrub.
