31 thoughts on “Why haven't they invented a superior synthetic alternative to leather yet?

  1. Anonymous says:

    Leather would be ethical if we didn’t lived in a malthusian apocalypse, cows eventually die, so leather acquired from those cows are vegan.

  2. Anonymous says:

    I swear they have? heck knows what it’s called but apparently the Louis vuitton ‘leather’ bags are made of some kind of synthetic plastic that is designed so it doesn’t wear as easy from rain etc.

    • Anonymous says:

      Lab grown disembodied leather in 10 years. What makes leather good like all other natural materials isn’t that it’s animal skin or harvested plant but that it’s made of a specific configuration of cells.
      Until then; waxed canvas > pleather or ‘fruit leather.’

      No, it’s only incidental: believing so is to be proudly stockholm’d by violence. The ruling classes abode by this ‘natural law’ not because they have access to higher laws but because he who controls the violence of the system controls the system. This ‘Karmic law’ that predicates thereof is made up as a positive cope, like sour grapes, which requires feedback loops to sustain it.
      See picrel as just the anthrotheological microscope pointed at what is generally thermodynamics: it is convincing because it appeals to violence as a means of control – the tools of violence are handmedowns that have been thoroughly outgrown and outpaced by more ‘silent’ and ‘abstract’ weapons: nuclear bombs eg., being symbols of a potentiality, rather than active measures – fear is the real weapon until they drop, and they only drop because of fear.

    • Anonymous says:

      You know leather has to be manipulated by man before its useful right? Stop being a le epic trad warrior, it’s embarrassing.

      • Anonymous says:

        >leather used to be tanned by tree bark producing no harmful wastes
        >now tanned with chromium salts that are terrible for the environment
        read a book stupid

        • Anonymous says:

          you can use animal brains to tan the hide, generally there is enough brain matter in each to tan the whole animal’s hide

  3. Anonymous says:

    Simple. Leather is basically nano tech. Billions of nanomachines called cells comprise it. That’s why artificial materials can’t compete. We don’t have nano tech

  4. Anonymous says:

    Alcantara exists, but it’s not "superior" in a fashion sense. It has better resistance against heat/UV light, which will crack leather over time, which is why it is used in vehicles. It can also be made with flame-stupidant additives. So overall it’s more of a functional material which requires less maintenance than leather and exhibits specific desirable properties. For clothing items alcantara is useless.

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