All About Flotar Leather

Flotar is a type of genuine leather that sets itself apart from other types due to its matte surface featuring an irregular grain pattern that resembles the natural folds of the skin. The color variety of products made from this leather impresses and captures attention, while its durability provides leather accessories with a long life span.

What Are Characteristics of Flotar Leather?

Flotar leather is obtained from the cattle hide. It has a distinctive texture that sets Flotar leather apart from vintage Crazy Horse or smooth Detroit leather. Cattle hide functions well as a material for producing high-quality clothes, backpacks, bags, gig bags, shoes, wallets, and purses. All of them boast an attractive, unusual texture and a stylish appearance with a minimum of decorative details.

Due to the fat level of 20%, Flotar leather has excellent water-resistant properties that allow using products made from Flotar in high humidity and outdoor settings. Actually, you can take Flotar bags or gig cases wherever you go and use them all year around, staying confident that neither rain nor moisture will damage their structure and make them lose their shape and beautiful appearance.

The natural structure allows for the use of organic, non-toxic dyes that penetrate deep into the surface and help the leather preserve its color over time. With Flotar leather products, you won’t face the unpleasant situation of the paint peeling off and spoiling the overall impression. Another distinguishing feature of Flotar leather is its wide range of colors.

Flotar leather goods are among the most popular genuine leather products. They are aimed at customers who appreciate refined style and durable design created for frequent use. Flotar is made in a way that it’s not harmful to the human body. It can be used for both the front and back surfaces.

How Is Flotar Leather Produced?

Flotar leather acquires its unique properties during the specific manufacturing process. It comes in several steps:

1. The hide is soaked in water to free it from dirt, salt, and other pollutants.
2. Cattle hide with hair comes through the process of removing hair called dehairing.
3. Using special equipment, the leather is cleaned from flesh and fat from the inside.
4. To achieve a particular thickness of leather, the hide is split into layers.
5. At the stage of tanning, cattle hides are treated with special tanning agents to prevent them from decaying or deteriorating over time and maintain leather flexibility and overall quality.
6. Leather is dyed to get a particular color

Coming through the drum processing and being rotated at moderate speed, the leather acquires a pattern with grains of different sizes.

Key Advantages of Flotar Leather

Flotar leather differs from other leather due to the following characteristics:

• It makes this type of leather suitable for sewing shoes and crafting accessories.
• Good coloring. The grain structure takes dyes easily as pigments penetrate deep into the pores, providing the leather surface with saturated and durable colors.
• Breathable surface. The natural base allows the material to breathe that makes Flotar leather goods both comfortable as clothing and storage for musical instruments.
• Elasticity, strength and resistance to wear. Flotar leather boasts durability. It doesn’t wrinkle, and preserves its shape.

As modern manufacturers use natural organic dyes during production process, Flotar leather products meet safety and environmental criteria.

What Flotar Products and Accessories You Can Buy From MG Leather Work

We use Flotar leather for a wide range of products and accessories aimed at demanding musicians who never compromise between high quality, durability and aesthetic look. Flotar leather allows us to produce attractive leather products, which serve a long time and never go out of fashion.

Among our collection of goods made of Flotar leather, you can find:

• Single trumpet bags and flugelhorn bags designed for busy city settings and offering multiple carrying options ranging from handles to a shoulder strap and a D ring to carry the bag in a backpack style.
• Triple/double trumpet and flugelhorn bags with reinforced sides and legs, designed for touring and travelling and allowing keeping two or three instruments or using compartments for an instrument and accessories.
• Flute gig bags with a big compartment for two flutes and inside pockets for flutists’ essentials.
• Flute backpacks suitable for C, B and piccolo flutes, with backside, side and zipped pockets.
• Bass bow cases with rigid frame, soft lining and a comfortable strap to carry on a shoulder.
• Conductor’s baton cases with three compartments, zipper closure and a comfortable handle.
• Alto-tenor saxophone neck pouches to protect saxophone necks from damage on the road and in everyday life.
• Drumstick bags with suede interior and built-in rubber loops for a comfortable placing on the tom drum.
• Cornet piccolo bags with multiple carrying options and a reinforced side to protect the bell.
• Bags for a straight and curved soprano saxophone combining attractive appearance, multiple carrying options and soft lining.

That is not the full list, you can find other products in a particular category devoted to your instrument. We also continue to work on other models for various purposes.

Personalization on Flotar Leather

Although Flotar leather looks unique and especial itself, it can look even more exclusive and individual with personalization featuring leather embossing. To make your bag or any other accessory stand out or function as a gift, we can decorate them with initials and words in Georgia Font.

We use blind embossing method to press figures and letters in the surface as our standard method; however, you can also request gold or silver embossing after prior discussion. Embossing on Flotar leather makes it look expensive with a touch of elegance, which is crucial for personal brands. Embossed patterns and characters on the leather surface turn any accessory into a powerful statement and emphasize the individual style of musicians.

Recap

Flotar leather stands out thanks to its water-resistant properties, distinctive character of the grain and a wide variety of colors. Accessories made of this material meet the demands of people who value durability and appealing appearance. Flotar leather is used to produce various accessories for musical instruments, including bags for trumpets, flutes, flugelhorns, conductor’s batons, drumsticks, etc. 

You may also find helpful our articles about how we do leather embossing and trends in accessories for musicians.

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