{"id":522,"date":"2011-08-08T14:59:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveourhandbagsblog.wordpress.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2011-08-08T14:59:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:59:05","slug":"what-is-patent-leather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"What is Patent Leather?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Patent leather has been treated with lacquer (which is like paint) to give it a glossy surface. Meaning when the manufacturing process is complete the product is given a high gloss shiny finish. Keep in mind that there is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Leather\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leather\" rel=\"wikipedia\">genuine leather<\/a> that has been treated with the lacquer finish and there are synthetic leathers that have been treated with the same type of lacquer as well.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful that when you are ordering <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Handbag\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Handbag\" rel=\"wikipedia\">handbags<\/a> you are mindful of whether its real <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patent leather\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patent_leather\" rel=\"wikipedia\">patent leather<\/a> or faux (artificial) patent leather. Faux or artificial is usually cheaper and very common, however, both real and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Artificial leather\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_leather\" rel=\"wikipedia\">faux leather<\/a> have great appearance and provide a classy high society look to your handbags.<\/p>\n<p>The material for the handbag is laid flat and the lacquer (like paint) is painted on and allowed to dry. Machines do this in many manufacturing processes. The picture is a tub of the lacquer (again its like paint) that is used on handbags, purses, shoes and many other everyday items. Here are some patent leather examples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/black-patent-leather-bags.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-533\" title=\"Example of Patent Leather Handbags\" src=\"http:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/black-patent-leather-bags.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You must admit these bags are really sharp ladies so don&#8217;t let the manufacturing process scare you away from these beautiful types of bags.<\/p>\n<p>Katrina Love<br \/>\nPresident &amp; CEO<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveourglamourblog.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LoveOurGlamourBlog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patent leather has been treated with lacquer (which is like paint) to give it a glossy surface. Meaning when the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,37,38],"tags":[55,165,252],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying","category-handbags","category-what-is","category-women","tag-artificial-leather","tag-handbag-2","tag-patent-leather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveourglamourblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}