A pressed grain that catches the light along its length: a scotch grain on the Latigo, a boxboard print on the Hatch Grain.
Both are combination-tanned leathers from the Horween tannery in Chicago, IL, backed with a natural vegetable-tanned leather for structure and stretch resistance, then creased and polished along every edge. The texture holds polish in its low points and lightens across the high ones, so the pattern only grows more distinct with wear.
Scotch Grain Latigo is the tighter of the two: a fine pebbled pattern in black that reads as texture at arm's length and as pattern up close. Hatch Grain is the looser one, a boxboard print in brown finished with aniline dyes, so the raised squares are tipped a shade lighter than the ground they sit on. Both are combination-tanned Horween hides from Chicago, IL.
This is the shelf for a belt with something to say that doesn't say it in color. The grain does the work, so a black embossed belt still goes everywhere a plain black belt goes and still doesn't look like every other belt in the room. Both are lined over a vegetable-tanned backing, stained along every edge, cut to your measurement from 26 to 44 inches.