Townsend Leather is a third-generation, family-owned manufacturer of upholstery hides and decorative leathers, crafting the world's finest leather from its campus in Johnstown, New York since 1969. As the manufacturer — not a distributor — Townsend controls every step of the process from raw hide selection through dyeing, finishing, and delivery, ensuring unmatched consistency, color accuracy, and quality on every order.
With over 1,000 colors, textures, and qualities across dozens of collections, Townsend serves the world's most demanding design professionals in hospitality, residential, corporate, commercial aviation, and transportation markets. Kaiser Hospitality is proud to represent Townsend Leather across Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
Classic Cowhide
Townsend's most popular leather — aniline-dyed, natural grain cowhide with a light calfskin-like finish that highlights the smooth grain. Supremely soft with outstanding durability, Classic is the standard against which all hospitality upholstery leather is measured.
View CollectionNubuck Cowhide
A top-grain cowhide buffed to a fine, velvety nap on the grain side. Nubuck delivers a luxurious tactile quality that elevates seating, headboards, and wall applications. Available in an extensive standard colorline with custom color capability.
View CollectionSuede
Aniline-dyed cowhide split suede, brushed to a luxurious nap. Townsend's suede offerings combine visual warmth with a special tanning process that imparts stain resistance — making them well-suited to hotel seating and soft goods applications.
View CollectionEmbossed & Textured
With over 700 embossing plates and 140 calendar rolls — the largest collection under one roof in the U.S. — Townsend produces textured leathers that maximize cutting yield and minimize seams. From Perfectly Pebbled to Galuchat stingray emboss, the range is extraordinary.
View CollectionMetallic & Foiled
Shimmering foiled leathers, brushed metallics, and lustrous gem finishes for statement applications. These specialty surfaces bring dramatic visual impact to feature walls, bar fronts, headboards, and accent furniture in luxury hospitality environments.
View CollectionCut Sets & Panels
Townsend produces precision cut sets for hospitality applications including headboards, wall coverings, and casegoods. As the manufacturer, Townsend controls dye lot consistency and can reproduce exact colors from year to year — a critical requirement for large-scale hotel projects.
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In-Stock Leather
Townsend's In-Stock Program makes it easy to specify premium leather on projects with tight timelines. Hundreds of leathers across popular collections are available for immediate shipment — no lead time, no minimum order delays.
Whether you need a fast sample for a presentation or need to move quickly on a hotel project, Townsend's in-stock inventory gives you access to their most popular cowhides, suedes, and specialty leathers ready to ship today.
Browse In-Stock Leathers →You Dream It. Townsend Makes It.
Beyond their standard collections, Townsend's craftspeople offer an unmatched range of specialty techniques — giving designers and procurement teams virtually unlimited creative latitude. Every capability is produced in-house at Townsend's Johnstown, NY facility, with sample strike-offs available in rapid turnaround.
Townsend controls the entire leather-making process in-house — from raw hide selection through dyeing, finishing, and delivery. This means tighter quality control, dye lot consistency, and the ability to reproduce exact colors from project to project, year after year.
Townsend sources only the finest pearl crust hides from partner tanneries around the world, accepting only the highest-quality materials to ensure superior yield and value. European hides are selected for their finer grain structure, larger size, and absence of defects.
Any standard product is available in custom colors with rapid turnaround. Townsend's internal design team can create custom embossing patterns, hand-tipped finishes, and specialty treatments — bringing any designer's vision to life with sample strike-offs in days.
Every Townsend order is thoroughly tested in their own on-site laboratory to meet or exceed industry performance standards. Townsend is AS9100 certified and can submit leather to independent labs for certification when project specifications require it.
Ready to specify Townsend Leather on your next project? Visit their website to browse collections and order samples — or reach out to Kaiser Hospitality for representation across Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas.