Nubuck
Top-grain leather whose grain side is sanded or buffed to a short nap of protein fibres, producing a velvet-like surface distinct from suede's flesh-side nap.
How it connects
Nubuck is a kind of Leather.
Nubuck is filed under Leather.
Other kinds of Leather: Bovine leather and Suede.
In other taxonomies
- nubuckWikidata, Q28864nearly the same
- Uniclassno equivalent
- Getty AATno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Nubuck
3 terms, Suede to Bovine leather
Record
- Broader
- Leather
- Provenance
- referencedWikidata Q28864 nubuck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28864; ISO 15115, https://www.iso.org/obp/ui?_escaped_fragment_=iso%3Astd%3Aiso%3A15115%3Aed-1%3Av1%3Aen, read 26 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/nubuckKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- narrowerLeatherincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderLeatheroutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Leatheroutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Natural organicoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Bovine leatheroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Suedeoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | Q28864 | nubuck | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026Nubuck via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/search?query=Nubuck&filter=status%3ACurrent | none |
| Getty AAT | no equivalent | searched 22 Oct 2026Nubuck via https://vocab.getty.edu/sparql; luc:term search, AAT preferred labels and English scope notes read | none |