The surest way is to find a place where you can see the back of the material. Leather will look like suede, vinyl will have a cloth mesh backing. Dick Benjamin ----- Original Message ----- From: <DONALDDICKINSOND@xxxxxx> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 7:24 AM Subject: IML: Is it vinyl or leather? > Is there any good (solvent?) test to verify where leather trim ends and vinyl > begins? Some of these vinyls are hard to tell from leather. >