The modern alternative to leatherite: sustainable, breathable, stretchable and engineered in-house.

Water-Based
Biodegradable
ZDHC Level 3 Compliant
Made In House
Polyester Knit
Tropical urban scene

Metaflairr

Metaflairr is a finished, ready-to-use fabric — a water-based metallic or matte surface engineered onto breathable polyester knit. It offers an alternative to PU and PVC leatherite for bags, footwear, apparel, furniture and accessories: lighter, breathable and stretchable, durable in daily use, with a coat that is solvent-free and biodegradable.
Substrate
Supplied as finished fabric
Compliance
ZDHC Level 3 MRSL
Application
Supplied finished — cut and sew
Range
Matte to Metallic
Form
Coated polyester knit
Metaflairr

Overview

Synthetic leather achieves the look of leather in exchange for a material that feels like plastic, wears down with use, and carries a heavier environmental footprint. Metaflairr removes the trade-off — the finish of leather with the comfort and versatility of a knit, built to outlast leatherite while carrying a lighter environmental footprint.
Handle the two materials and the difference is immediate. Leatherite sits heavy and airless against the skin, runs hot, and hardens, cracks and turns brittle with age. Metaflairr is light, soft to the hand and breathable — it drapes, flexes and moves like fabric, because it is one.
Black car shot
Classic sports car
Metaflairr

The Challenge

Leatherite is manufactured with heavy solvents — a process that endangers the people producing it and causes lasting ecological damage, repeated with every metre made.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Sea lace black
The result carries the cost forward. Leatherite has no stretch and no breathability — it cracks and peels, degrades in moisture and sunlight, and ends its life as permanent waste.
Metaflairr

The Solution

Metaflairr arrives finished. One fabric, specified to order — metallic sheen or matte, colour matched to brand standard — and it cuts and sews like any other fabric. No new equipment. No process change.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Luxury car shot top
Customisation goes further than colour. Embossing and surface pattern can be developed to a brand's own specification — Dyechem's R&D team works directly with customer designers on finishes exclusive to that brand.
Modern car shot

Metaflairr

Metaflairr

Performance Results

The material performs where leatherite fails. It is silk-soft and non-sticky, holds high tear and abrasion strength in daily use, and flexes with movement rather than building stress points. It does not crack or turn brittle.
Tropical urban scene
Water-Based

The entire coat, no solvents

0%
Cracking

Does not crack or turn brittle

57%
Odour

Odour-free from day one

0%

Because the coat is water-based and the base is a knit, the fabric stays light and breathable without giving up durability — suited to apparel worn across weather conditions and to lightweight footwear — and it is odour-free from day one.

Metaflairr

Final thoughts

Metaflairr delivers the look of leather without the compromises of leatherite: breathable, lightweight, soft and durable, with stretch built in and a water-based, biodegradable coat — supplied as finished fabric, ready to cut, with nothing to change in existing production.

Metaflairr

How It Runs

Choose the Finish
Match the Colour
Add Your Texture
Cut and Sew
Metallic sheen or matte
Colour matched to brand standard
Optional embossing and brand-exclusive patterns
Ships as finished fabric, straight into production
Team discussing the project
Previous Project

More Projects

The modern alternative to leatherite: sustainable, breathable, stretchable and engineered in-house.

Water-Based
Biodegradable
ZDHC Level 3 Compliant
Made In House
Polyester Knit
Tropical urban scene

Metaflairr

Metaflairr is a finished, ready-to-use fabric — a water-based metallic or matte surface engineered onto breathable polyester knit. It offers an alternative to PU and PVC leatherite for bags, footwear, apparel, furniture and accessories: lighter, breathable and stretchable, durable in daily use, with a coat that is solvent-free and biodegradable.
Substrate
Supplied as finished fabric
Compliance
ZDHC Level 3 MRSL
Application
Supplied finished — cut and sew
Range
Matte to Metallic
Form
Coated polyester knit
Metaflairr

Overview

Synthetic leather achieves the look of leather in exchange for a material that feels like plastic, wears down with use, and carries a heavier environmental footprint. Metaflairr removes the trade-off — the finish of leather with the comfort and versatility of a knit, built to outlast leatherite while carrying a lighter environmental footprint.
Handle the two materials and the difference is immediate. Leatherite sits heavy and airless against the skin, runs hot, and hardens, cracks and turns brittle with age. Metaflairr is light, soft to the hand and breathable — it drapes, flexes and moves like fabric, because it is one.
Black car shot
Classic sports car
Metaflairr

The Challenge

Leatherite is manufactured with heavy solvents — a process that endangers the people producing it and causes lasting ecological damage, repeated with every metre made.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Sea lace black
The result carries the cost forward. Leatherite has no stretch and no breathability — it cracks and peels, degrades in moisture and sunlight, and ends its life as permanent waste.
Metaflairr

The Solution

Metaflairr arrives finished. One fabric, specified to order — metallic sheen or matte, colour matched to brand standard — and it cuts and sews like any other fabric. No new equipment. No process change.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Luxury car shot top
Customisation goes further than colour. Embossing and surface pattern can be developed to a brand's own specification — Dyechem's R&D team works directly with customer designers on finishes exclusive to that brand.
Modern car shot

Metaflairr

Metaflairr

Performance Results

The material performs where leatherite fails. It is silk-soft and non-sticky, holds high tear and abrasion strength in daily use, and flexes with movement rather than building stress points. It does not crack or turn brittle.
Tropical urban scene
Water-Based

The entire coat, no solvents

0%
Cracking

Does not crack or turn brittle

57%
Odour

Odour-free from day one

0%

Because the coat is water-based and the base is a knit, the fabric stays light and breathable without giving up durability — suited to apparel worn across weather conditions and to lightweight footwear — and it is odour-free from day one.

Metaflairr

Final thoughts

Metaflairr delivers the look of leather without the compromises of leatherite: breathable, lightweight, soft and durable, with stretch built in and a water-based, biodegradable coat — supplied as finished fabric, ready to cut, with nothing to change in existing production.

Metaflairr

How It Runs

Choose the Finish
Match the Colour
Add Your Texture
Cut and Sew
Metallic sheen or matte
Colour matched to brand standard
Optional embossing and brand-exclusive patterns
Ships as finished fabric, straight into production
Team discussing the project
Previous Project

More Projects

The modern alternative to leatherite: sustainable, breathable, stretchable and engineered in-house.

Water-Based
Biodegradable
ZDHC Level 3 Compliant
Made In House
Polyester Knit
Tropical urban scene

Metaflairr

Metaflairr is a finished, ready-to-use fabric — a water-based metallic or matte surface engineered onto breathable polyester knit. It offers an alternative to PU and PVC leatherite for bags, footwear, apparel, furniture and accessories: lighter, breathable and stretchable, durable in daily use, with a coat that is solvent-free and biodegradable.
Substrate
Supplied as finished fabric
Compliance
Application
Supplied finished — cut and sew
Range
Matte to Metallic
Form
Coated polyester knit
Metaflairr

Overview

Synthetic leather achieves the look of leather in exchange for a material that feels like plastic, wears down with use, and carries a heavier environmental footprint. Metaflairr removes the trade-off — the finish of leather with the comfort and versatility of a knit, built to outlast leatherite while carrying a lighter environmental footprint.
Handle the two materials and the difference is immediate. Leatherite sits heavy and airless against the skin, runs hot, and hardens, cracks and turns brittle with age. Metaflairr is light, soft to the hand and breathable — it drapes, flexes and moves like fabric, because it is one.
Black car shot
Classic sports car
Metaflairr

The Challenge

Leatherite is manufactured with heavy solvents — a process that endangers the people producing it and causes lasting ecological damage, repeated with every metre made.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Sea lace black
The result carries the cost forward. Leatherite has no stretch and no breathability — it cracks and peels, degrades in moisture and sunlight, and ends its life as permanent waste.
Metaflairr

The Solution

Metaflairr arrives finished. One fabric, specified to order — metallic sheen or matte, colour matched to brand standard — and it cuts and sews like any other fabric. No new equipment. No process change.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Luxury car shot top
Customisation goes further than colour. Embossing and surface pattern can be developed to a brand's own specification — Dyechem's R&D team works directly with customer designers on finishes exclusive to that brand.
Modern car shot

Metaflairr

Metaflairr

Performance Results

The material performs where leatherite fails. It is silk-soft and non-sticky, holds high tear and abrasion strength in daily use, and flexes with movement rather than building stress points. It does not crack or turn brittle.
Tropical urban scene
Water-Based

The entire coat, no solvents

0%
Cracking

Does not crack or turn brittle

57%
Odour

Odour-free from day one

0%

Because the coat is water-based and the base is a knit, the fabric stays light and breathable without giving up durability — suited to apparel worn across weather conditions and to lightweight footwear — and it is odour-free from day one.

Metaflairr

Final thoughts

Metaflairr delivers the look of leather without the compromises of leatherite: breathable, lightweight, soft and durable, with stretch built in and a water-based, biodegradable coat — supplied as finished fabric, ready to cut, with nothing to change in existing production.

Metaflairr

How It Runs

Choose the Finish
Match the Colour
Add Your Texture
Cut and Sew
Metallic sheen or matte
Colour matched to brand standard
Optional embossing and brand-exclusive patterns
Ships as finished fabric, straight into production
Team discussing the project
Previous Project
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Next Project
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So we’ll send you one.

Name the material and the finish. We’ll develop a sample and get it to you.

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© 2026 Dyechem — All rights reserved.
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The modern alternative to leatherite: sustainable, breathable, stretchable and engineered in-house.

Water-Based
Biodegradable
ZDHC Level 3 Compliant
Made In House
Polyester Knit
Tropical urban scene

Metaflairr

Metaflairr is a finished, ready-to-use fabric — a water-based metallic or matte surface engineered onto breathable polyester knit. It offers an alternative to PU and PVC leatherite for bags, footwear, apparel, furniture and accessories: lighter, breathable and stretchable, durable in daily use, with a coat that is solvent-free and biodegradable.
Substrate
Supplied as finished fabric
Compliance
ZDHC Level 3 MRSL
Application
Supplied finished — cut and sew
Range
Matte to Metallic
Form
Coated polyester knit
Metaflairr

Overview

Synthetic leather achieves the look of leather in exchange for a material that feels like plastic, wears down with use, and carries a heavier environmental footprint. Metaflairr removes the trade-off — the finish of leather with the comfort and versatility of a knit, built to outlast leatherite while carrying a lighter environmental footprint.
Handle the two materials and the difference is immediate. Leatherite sits heavy and airless against the skin, runs hot, and hardens, cracks and turns brittle with age. Metaflairr is light, soft to the hand and breathable — it drapes, flexes and moves like fabric, because it is one.
Black car shot
Classic sports car
Metaflairr

The Challenge

Leatherite is manufactured with heavy solvents — a process that endangers the people producing it and causes lasting ecological damage, repeated with every metre made.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Sea lace black
The result carries the cost forward. Leatherite has no stretch and no breathability — it cracks and peels, degrades in moisture and sunlight, and ends its life as permanent waste.
Metaflairr

The Solution

Metaflairr arrives finished. One fabric, specified to order — metallic sheen or matte, colour matched to brand standard — and it cuts and sews like any other fabric. No new equipment. No process change.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Luxury car shot top
Customisation goes further than colour. Embossing and surface pattern can be developed to a brand's own specification — Dyechem's R&D team works directly with customer designers on finishes exclusive to that brand.
Modern car shot

Metaflairr

Metaflairr

Performance Results

The material performs where leatherite fails. It is silk-soft and non-sticky, holds high tear and abrasion strength in daily use, and flexes with movement rather than building stress points. It does not crack or turn brittle.
Tropical urban scene
Water-Based

The entire coat, no solvents

0%
Cracking

Does not crack or turn brittle

57%
Odour

Odour-free from day one

0%

Because the coat is water-based and the base is a knit, the fabric stays light and breathable without giving up durability — suited to apparel worn across weather conditions and to lightweight footwear — and it is odour-free from day one.

Metaflairr

Final thoughts

Metaflairr delivers the look of leather without the compromises of leatherite: breathable, lightweight, soft and durable, with stretch built in and a water-based, biodegradable coat — supplied as finished fabric, ready to cut, with nothing to change in existing production.

Metaflairr

How It Runs

Choose the Finish
Match the Colour
Add Your Texture
Cut and Sew
Metallic sheen or matte
Colour matched to brand standard
Optional embossing and brand-exclusive patterns
Ships as finished fabric, straight into production
Team discussing the project
Previous Project

More Projects

The modern alternative to leatherite: sustainable, breathable, stretchable and engineered in-house.

Water-Based
Biodegradable
ZDHC Level 3 Compliant
Made In House
Polyester Knit
Tropical urban scene

Metaflairr

Metaflairr is a finished, ready-to-use fabric — a water-based metallic or matte surface engineered onto breathable polyester knit. It offers an alternative to PU and PVC leatherite for bags, footwear, apparel, furniture and accessories: lighter, breathable and stretchable, durable in daily use, with a coat that is solvent-free and biodegradable.
Substrate
Supplied as finished fabric
Compliance
ZDHC Level 3 MRSL
Application
Supplied finished — cut and sew
Range
Matte to Metallic
Form
Coated polyester knit
Metaflairr

Overview

Synthetic leather achieves the look of leather in exchange for a material that feels like plastic, wears down with use, and carries a heavier environmental footprint. Metaflairr removes the trade-off — the finish of leather with the comfort and versatility of a knit, built to outlast leatherite while carrying a lighter environmental footprint.
Handle the two materials and the difference is immediate. Leatherite sits heavy and airless against the skin, runs hot, and hardens, cracks and turns brittle with age. Metaflairr is light, soft to the hand and breathable — it drapes, flexes and moves like fabric, because it is one.
Black car shot
Classic sports car
Metaflairr

The Challenge

Leatherite is manufactured with heavy solvents — a process that endangers the people producing it and causes lasting ecological damage, repeated with every metre made.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Sea lace black
The result carries the cost forward. Leatherite has no stretch and no breathability — it cracks and peels, degrades in moisture and sunlight, and ends its life as permanent waste.
Metaflairr

The Solution

Metaflairr arrives finished. One fabric, specified to order — metallic sheen or matte, colour matched to brand standard — and it cuts and sews like any other fabric. No new equipment. No process change.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Luxury car shot top
Customisation goes further than colour. Embossing and surface pattern can be developed to a brand's own specification — Dyechem's R&D team works directly with customer designers on finishes exclusive to that brand.
Modern car shot

Metaflairr

Metaflairr

Performance Results

The material performs where leatherite fails. It is silk-soft and non-sticky, holds high tear and abrasion strength in daily use, and flexes with movement rather than building stress points. It does not crack or turn brittle.
Tropical urban scene
Water-Based

The entire coat, no solvents

0%
Cracking

Does not crack or turn brittle

57%
Odour

Odour-free from day one

0%

Because the coat is water-based and the base is a knit, the fabric stays light and breathable without giving up durability — suited to apparel worn across weather conditions and to lightweight footwear — and it is odour-free from day one.

Metaflairr

Final thoughts

Metaflairr delivers the look of leather without the compromises of leatherite: breathable, lightweight, soft and durable, with stretch built in and a water-based, biodegradable coat — supplied as finished fabric, ready to cut, with nothing to change in existing production.

Metaflairr

How It Runs

Choose the Finish
Match the Colour
Add Your Texture
Cut and Sew
Metallic sheen or matte
Colour matched to brand standard
Optional embossing and brand-exclusive patterns
Ships as finished fabric, straight into production
Team discussing the project
Previous Project

More Projects

The modern alternative to leatherite: sustainable, breathable, stretchable and engineered in-house.

Water-Based
Biodegradable
ZDHC Level 3 Compliant
Made In House
Polyester Knit
Tropical urban scene

Metaflairr

Metaflairr is a finished, ready-to-use fabric — a water-based metallic or matte surface engineered onto breathable polyester knit. It offers an alternative to PU and PVC leatherite for bags, footwear, apparel, furniture and accessories: lighter, breathable and stretchable, durable in daily use, with a coat that is solvent-free and biodegradable.
Substrate
Supplied as finished fabric
Compliance
Application
Supplied finished — cut and sew
Range
Matte to Metallic
Form
Coated polyester knit
Metaflairr

Overview

Synthetic leather achieves the look of leather in exchange for a material that feels like plastic, wears down with use, and carries a heavier environmental footprint. Metaflairr removes the trade-off — the finish of leather with the comfort and versatility of a knit, built to outlast leatherite while carrying a lighter environmental footprint.
Handle the two materials and the difference is immediate. Leatherite sits heavy and airless against the skin, runs hot, and hardens, cracks and turns brittle with age. Metaflairr is light, soft to the hand and breathable — it drapes, flexes and moves like fabric, because it is one.
Black car shot
Classic sports car
Metaflairr

The Challenge

Leatherite is manufactured with heavy solvents — a process that endangers the people producing it and causes lasting ecological damage, repeated with every metre made.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Sea lace black
The result carries the cost forward. Leatherite has no stretch and no breathability — it cracks and peels, degrades in moisture and sunlight, and ends its life as permanent waste.
Metaflairr

The Solution

Metaflairr arrives finished. One fabric, specified to order — metallic sheen or matte, colour matched to brand standard — and it cuts and sews like any other fabric. No new equipment. No process change.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Luxury car shot top
Customisation goes further than colour. Embossing and surface pattern can be developed to a brand's own specification — Dyechem's R&D team works directly with customer designers on finishes exclusive to that brand.
Modern car shot

Metaflairr

Metaflairr

Performance Results

The material performs where leatherite fails. It is silk-soft and non-sticky, holds high tear and abrasion strength in daily use, and flexes with movement rather than building stress points. It does not crack or turn brittle.
Tropical urban scene
Water-Based

The entire coat, no solvents

0%
Cracking

Does not crack or turn brittle

57%
Odour

Odour-free from day one

0%

Because the coat is water-based and the base is a knit, the fabric stays light and breathable without giving up durability — suited to apparel worn across weather conditions and to lightweight footwear — and it is odour-free from day one.

Metaflairr

Final thoughts

Metaflairr delivers the look of leather without the compromises of leatherite: breathable, lightweight, soft and durable, with stretch built in and a water-based, biodegradable coat — supplied as finished fabric, ready to cut, with nothing to change in existing production.

Metaflairr

How It Runs

Choose the Finish
Match the Colour
Add Your Texture
Cut and Sew
Metallic sheen or matte
Colour matched to brand standard
Optional embossing and brand-exclusive patterns
Ships as finished fabric, straight into production
Team discussing the project
Previous Project
Chevron Right
Next Project
Chevron Right

More Projects

A finish is hard to judge on a screen.
So we’ll send you one.

Name the material and the finish. We’ll develop a sample and get it to you.

Team working in an office watching at a presentation

Based in Kolkata since 1975.

Stay in the Loop

Stay informed about our latest news, updates by subscribing to our newsletter.

We respect your inbox. No spam, just valuable updates.

5, Ashu Biswas Road, Kolkata: 700019.

Dyechem International is a company registered in India. Water-based coatings, finishes, and textile chemicals are manufactured and supplied by Dyechem International.

© 2026 Dyechem — All rights reserved.
Chevron up

The modern alternative to leatherite: sustainable, breathable, stretchable and engineered in-house.

Water-Based
Biodegradable
ZDHC Level 3 Compliant
Made In House
Polyester Knit
Tropical urban scene

Metaflairr

Metaflairr is a finished, ready-to-use fabric — a water-based metallic or matte surface engineered onto breathable polyester knit. It offers an alternative to PU and PVC leatherite for bags, footwear, apparel, furniture and accessories: lighter, breathable and stretchable, durable in daily use, with a coat that is solvent-free and biodegradable.
Substrate
Supplied as finished fabric
Compliance
ZDHC Level 3 MRSL
Application
Supplied finished — cut and sew
Range
Matte to Metallic
Form
Coated polyester knit
Metaflairr

Overview

Synthetic leather achieves the look of leather in exchange for a material that feels like plastic, wears down with use, and carries a heavier environmental footprint. Metaflairr removes the trade-off — the finish of leather with the comfort and versatility of a knit, built to outlast leatherite while carrying a lighter environmental footprint.
Handle the two materials and the difference is immediate. Leatherite sits heavy and airless against the skin, runs hot, and hardens, cracks and turns brittle with age. Metaflairr is light, soft to the hand and breathable — it drapes, flexes and moves like fabric, because it is one.
Black car shot
Classic sports car
Metaflairr

The Challenge

Leatherite is manufactured with heavy solvents — a process that endangers the people producing it and causes lasting ecological damage, repeated with every metre made.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Sea lace black
The result carries the cost forward. Leatherite has no stretch and no breathability — it cracks and peels, degrades in moisture and sunlight, and ends its life as permanent waste.
Metaflairr

The Solution

Metaflairr arrives finished. One fabric, specified to order — metallic sheen or matte, colour matched to brand standard — and it cuts and sews like any other fabric. No new equipment. No process change.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Luxury car shot top
Customisation goes further than colour. Embossing and surface pattern can be developed to a brand's own specification — Dyechem's R&D team works directly with customer designers on finishes exclusive to that brand.
Modern car shot

Metaflairr

Metaflairr

Performance Results

The material performs where leatherite fails. It is silk-soft and non-sticky, holds high tear and abrasion strength in daily use, and flexes with movement rather than building stress points. It does not crack or turn brittle.
Tropical urban scene
Water-Based

The entire coat, no solvents

0%
Cracking

Does not crack or turn brittle

57%
Odour

Odour-free from day one

0%

Because the coat is water-based and the base is a knit, the fabric stays light and breathable without giving up durability — suited to apparel worn across weather conditions and to lightweight footwear — and it is odour-free from day one.

Metaflairr

Final thoughts

Metaflairr delivers the look of leather without the compromises of leatherite: breathable, lightweight, soft and durable, with stretch built in and a water-based, biodegradable coat — supplied as finished fabric, ready to cut, with nothing to change in existing production.

Metaflairr

How It Runs

Choose the Finish
Match the Colour
Add Your Texture
Cut and Sew
Metallic sheen or matte
Colour matched to brand standard
Optional embossing and brand-exclusive patterns
Ships as finished fabric, straight into production
Team discussing the project
Previous Project

More Projects

The modern alternative to leatherite: sustainable, breathable, stretchable and engineered in-house.

Water-Based
Biodegradable
ZDHC Level 3 Compliant
Made In House
Polyester Knit
Tropical urban scene

Metaflairr

Metaflairr is a finished, ready-to-use fabric — a water-based metallic or matte surface engineered onto breathable polyester knit. It offers an alternative to PU and PVC leatherite for bags, footwear, apparel, furniture and accessories: lighter, breathable and stretchable, durable in daily use, with a coat that is solvent-free and biodegradable.
Substrate
Supplied as finished fabric
Compliance
ZDHC Level 3 MRSL
Application
Supplied finished — cut and sew
Range
Matte to Metallic
Form
Coated polyester knit
Metaflairr

Overview

Synthetic leather achieves the look of leather in exchange for a material that feels like plastic, wears down with use, and carries a heavier environmental footprint. Metaflairr removes the trade-off — the finish of leather with the comfort and versatility of a knit, built to outlast leatherite while carrying a lighter environmental footprint.
Handle the two materials and the difference is immediate. Leatherite sits heavy and airless against the skin, runs hot, and hardens, cracks and turns brittle with age. Metaflairr is light, soft to the hand and breathable — it drapes, flexes and moves like fabric, because it is one.
Black car shot
Classic sports car
Metaflairr

The Challenge

Leatherite is manufactured with heavy solvents — a process that endangers the people producing it and causes lasting ecological damage, repeated with every metre made.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Sea lace black
The result carries the cost forward. Leatherite has no stretch and no breathability — it cracks and peels, degrades in moisture and sunlight, and ends its life as permanent waste.
Metaflairr

The Solution

Metaflairr arrives finished. One fabric, specified to order — metallic sheen or matte, colour matched to brand standard — and it cuts and sews like any other fabric. No new equipment. No process change.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Luxury car shot top
Customisation goes further than colour. Embossing and surface pattern can be developed to a brand's own specification — Dyechem's R&D team works directly with customer designers on finishes exclusive to that brand.
Modern car shot

Metaflairr

Metaflairr

Performance Results

The material performs where leatherite fails. It is silk-soft and non-sticky, holds high tear and abrasion strength in daily use, and flexes with movement rather than building stress points. It does not crack or turn brittle.
Tropical urban scene
Water-Based

The entire coat, no solvents

0%
Cracking

Does not crack or turn brittle

57%
Odour

Odour-free from day one

0%

Because the coat is water-based and the base is a knit, the fabric stays light and breathable without giving up durability — suited to apparel worn across weather conditions and to lightweight footwear — and it is odour-free from day one.

Metaflairr

Final thoughts

Metaflairr delivers the look of leather without the compromises of leatherite: breathable, lightweight, soft and durable, with stretch built in and a water-based, biodegradable coat — supplied as finished fabric, ready to cut, with nothing to change in existing production.

Metaflairr

How It Runs

Choose the Finish
Match the Colour
Add Your Texture
Cut and Sew
Metallic sheen or matte
Colour matched to brand standard
Optional embossing and brand-exclusive patterns
Ships as finished fabric, straight into production
Team discussing the project
Previous Project

More Projects

The modern alternative to leatherite: sustainable, breathable, stretchable and engineered in-house.

Water-Based
Biodegradable
ZDHC Level 3 Compliant
Made In House
Polyester Knit
Tropical urban scene

Metaflairr

Metaflairr is a finished, ready-to-use fabric — a water-based metallic or matte surface engineered onto breathable polyester knit. It offers an alternative to PU and PVC leatherite for bags, footwear, apparel, furniture and accessories: lighter, breathable and stretchable, durable in daily use, with a coat that is solvent-free and biodegradable.
Substrate
Supplied as finished fabric
Compliance
Application
Supplied finished — cut and sew
Range
Matte to Metallic
Form
Coated polyester knit
Metaflairr

Overview

Synthetic leather achieves the look of leather in exchange for a material that feels like plastic, wears down with use, and carries a heavier environmental footprint. Metaflairr removes the trade-off — the finish of leather with the comfort and versatility of a knit, built to outlast leatherite while carrying a lighter environmental footprint.
Handle the two materials and the difference is immediate. Leatherite sits heavy and airless against the skin, runs hot, and hardens, cracks and turns brittle with age. Metaflairr is light, soft to the hand and breathable — it drapes, flexes and moves like fabric, because it is one.
Black car shot
Classic sports car
Metaflairr

The Challenge

Leatherite is manufactured with heavy solvents — a process that endangers the people producing it and causes lasting ecological damage, repeated with every metre made.
Modern car shot
Modern car shot
Sea lace black
The result carries the cost forward. Leatherite has no stretch and no breathability — it cracks and peels, degrades in moisture and sunlight, and ends its life as permanent waste.
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The Solution

Metaflairr arrives finished. One fabric, specified to order — metallic sheen or matte, colour matched to brand standard — and it cuts and sews like any other fabric. No new equipment. No process change.
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Customisation goes further than colour. Embossing and surface pattern can be developed to a brand's own specification — Dyechem's R&D team works directly with customer designers on finishes exclusive to that brand.
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Metaflairr

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Performance Results

The material performs where leatherite fails. It is silk-soft and non-sticky, holds high tear and abrasion strength in daily use, and flexes with movement rather than building stress points. It does not crack or turn brittle.
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Water-Based

The entire coat, no solvents

0%
Cracking

Does not crack or turn brittle

57%
Odour

Odour-free from day one

0%

Because the coat is water-based and the base is a knit, the fabric stays light and breathable without giving up durability — suited to apparel worn across weather conditions and to lightweight footwear — and it is odour-free from day one.

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Final thoughts

Metaflairr delivers the look of leather without the compromises of leatherite: breathable, lightweight, soft and durable, with stretch built in and a water-based, biodegradable coat — supplied as finished fabric, ready to cut, with nothing to change in existing production.

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How It Runs

Choose the Finish
Match the Colour
Add Your Texture
Cut and Sew
Metallic sheen or matte
Colour matched to brand standard
Optional embossing and brand-exclusive patterns
Ships as finished fabric, straight into production
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