Laser engraving - Laser cutting leather

Laser engraving leather

To burn motifs in leather, leather is lasered. With today's technology, image files can be burned into a leather using a laser. The laser is set to burn the upper layers of the leather so that the surface is dark but not too deep damaged. Lasering is mostly used on uncoloured natural leather, but also on pigmented leather. On pigmented leathers, only the upper layer of the paint layer is burned.

To facilitate subsequent coloring of the lasered surface, a film may be glued before the laser, which then burns with it. Before the film is peeled off, the leather can then be coloured in the laser recesses without colouring unlasered areas.

Natural leather lasered (www.leder-speed.de). - Lasered pedigree of the company Posenanski (www.ledermanufaktur.com).

Template -> Pigmented leasered leather. The laser was too deep on the right side.

Lasered pattern on black goatskin by www.capturing-the-essence.com.

Lasered knife sheath and motorcycle saddle of www.ledermanufaktur.com.

Lasered leather motif as a birthday gift (original and lasering) by www.ledermanufaktur.com.

Colorful of www.leder-speed.de.

Under the microscope, the lines of the laser get visible. The upper photo is pigmented leather, below is natural leather without surface colouring.

Laser engraving leather fur

Also leather with hair and fur can be patterned by laser. This technique is usually applied to cowhide.

Cowhide can be patterned by laser (www.richter-leder.de).

Laser cutting leather

Mit einem Laser kann man Leder auch schneiden. Da das Lasern aber ein Verbrennungsvorgang ist, riecht das Leder danach auch entsprechend und der Ruß der Schnittkannten kann dunkel abfärben. Daher muss immer geprüft werden, ob nicht Stanzen oder Messer- oder Wasserstrahlschneiden die bessere Alternative ist.