Synthetic leather
A man-made coated or laminated material made to resemble leather, distinct from leather.
Also called faux leather, vegan leather, artificial leather.
How it connects
Synthetic leather is a kind of Composite.
Synthetic leather reads as Leather.
Other kinds of Composite: Engineered stone, Laminate, Linoleum, Solid surface and Terrazzo.
In other taxonomies
- imitation leatherGetty AAT, 300252783nearly the same
- artificial leatherWikidata, Q1792537nearly the same
- Uniclassno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Top of the axis
Synthetic leather
6 terms, Laminate to Engineered stone
Record
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/synthetic-leatherKnowledge 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
- narrowerCompositeincoming
- reading-ofLeatherincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderCompositeoutgoing
- reads-asLeatheroutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Compositeoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Engineered stoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Laminateoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Linoleumoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Solid surfaceoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Terrazzooutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300252783 | imitation leather | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q1792537 | artificial leather | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026Synthetic leather via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/search?query=Synthetic+leather&filter=status%3ACurrent | none |