> In case of Artificial leather it refers clearly not to lab grown animal skin but to a completely different product that just tries to emulate leather. Becaus

> In case of Artificial leather it refers clearly not to lab grown animal skin but to a completely different product that just tries to emulate leather. Because lab-grown animal skin is not on the market (as far as I know), so artificial implies that it's fake. If it were, though, and at least roughly as common as fake leather. I'm sure no-one would try to refer to it as natural. It would still be artificial, and artificial would cease to imply it being fake. If people choose to refer to fake leather as artificial leather, it's because artificial, real leather was hardly in the realm of the imaginable. Many would refer to it as impossible or at least as an act against God. > So the word is used in different contexts. What's being used in different contexts is the word "leather" to refer to both real and fake leather. "Artificial" is always used to refer to the non-natural, the man-made. I can't think of any case where it's used differently.