How To Produce Leathered Finish on Granite?

Currently, natural stone use has become an increasingly popular trend for home décor market. Granite is without doubt one of the favorite choices for many homes. However, there are still a few choices in different finishes, such as polished, flamed, honed, chiseled, bushhammered, leathered, etc.

Personally speaking, leathered finish granite is absolutely a centerpiece at a home due to its elegance and uniqueness. It is far from shiny, glossy or smooth, but instead it enjoys a textured surface that could be felt with the touch of your hand. This unique beautiful texture is composed of tiny fissures and pits that give you a feel of real leather, and the coarse surface varies across each individual slab.

Before you go to get leathered finish granite for your home, you may have a desire to know how leathered finish is produced on granite slabs? 

Leathered finish doesn’t naturally occur on granite slabs, but it is the result of the working of abrasives and diamond tipped brushes. To be specific, magnesite abrasives, resin abrasives or acidic abrasives, silicon carbide brushes, steel brushes or diamond brushes are combined together to run over on granite slab surface sequence by sequence as per requested extent of texture and finally deliver natural appealing grooves and contours in dark tones and colors.

That is a lengthy leathering process by handheld grinder at a fabricator’s workshop, but easier to come by on an automatic leathering line.