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Cow Nappa
Cow Nappa is a smooth and soft surface leather, which is taken out from the outer skin of the cow. This leather is available in various colors and finishes. Due to its softness, cow nappa leather is used in making a host of fashion apparels. This leather is wrinkle free.

Lamp Nappa
Lamp Nappa leather is the softest leather, which is taken out from a lamb or young sheep. Its a soft and light-weight leather. It is generally used for making sports wear jackets. Lamp Nappa leather comes in various attractive finishes and is considered the easiest material to work with.

Cow Split Leather
Cow split Leather is nothing but a single layer from a hide or skin of cow that has been separated over its whole area into two or more layers. The layers thus obtained is termed: (a) grain split (outer split); (b) flesh split (inner split); (c) in heavy hides, there can also be a middle split.

Cow split Leather is used mostly in making gloves for heavy handling and high temperature resistance. Usually, butt split is chosen over shoulder split (second choice) and belly split.

Advantages:
Cow split Leather costs less than full-grain leather and has a good abrasion resistance, which makes it last long.

Sheep Nappa
Originally, only sheep skin was referred to as "Napa." However, in recent years, the word "Napa" has become an adjective, meaning "soft" and now this term covers all leathers with a smooth and soft surface, which come from the outer skin (hair side) of the animal. This leather is considered soft and smooth and can be obtained in many finishes.

Sheep Nappa
Goat Nappa leather is taken out from the goat. It is soft and smooth in texture. Some garment and leather goods manufacturers prefer soft goat nappa as the ruling prices of sheep nappa are high with its limited availability, on account of restricted operations by tanners due to difficult workability.

Goat Nappa is available in different finishes, but of late, there is soar in the demand for black color goat nappa.

Pig Suede
Pig Suede leather is generally the inner side of the hide or skin next to the meat of the pig, buffed to a smooth finish. Suede may also be split from a thick hide. This pig suede leather, which is very light and smooth finds its utility in almost all types of leather accessories. It is available in various textures and exotic finishes.