leather/faux leather table mats - any good?

[Birdly]

Do they stain with wine/fat etc? Or does the gunge just wipe straight off?
Am fed up of buying mats that are ruined after only a few messy meals!

We have some, seem alright so far but we have only had them a couple of months. We just wiping them clean with a damp cloth after meals and they are from Tescos so fairly cheap too around £4 I think

got some from next dark brown leather (fake) I think they call it faux (snigger) rubbish .. if you wipe them with anthing damper than a teardrop they warp, and after putting a hot plate on one of them now have a rather lovely imprint

still on the search for some decent long lasting ones

(considering bamboo ?)

nah, they will imprint. Try john Lewis, we got some lovely granite ones from there, they are lovely, and impossible to mark.

Thanks all. You have confirmed my suspicions about leather - faux or otherwise!