Food waste / Fabric

AppleSkin

A sheet-form leather alternative using pomace/peel by-products from the apple juice industry.

A candidate when looking for a coated fabric to use instead of natural leather. It can be cut and sewn, and its surface texture comes close to leather. However…

Good for

• Crafts
• Products and objects
• Furniture

Consider

• A composite containing polyurethane. For the backing, the manufacturer's description and the test results differ: the manufacturer lists lyocell or rPET, while the substrate of the sample tested in a peer-reviewed paper was a polyester fabric.
• Butanone oxime and a trace amount of dimethylformamide were detected in a VDA 278 test. The paper does not disclose the supplier of the sample tested.
• The seller, VEGATEX BIOTECH, is a Hong Kong company. Its relationship to the related material said to be made in Italy is not confirmed anywhere in either party's official documents.
• No route to obtain the fabric in Korea was found. The manufacturer's page has no statement about shipping to Korea.

Manufacturer

VEGATEX

Availability

Korea route unconfirmed

Checked

2026-08-17