Leather types and tanning - setting the record straight
When buying leather products, you want to make sure you know what you’re paying for.
Full Grain Leather is the highest quality and also the most expensive leather that comes from the top layer of the hide - it includes all the grain with it. Retains the inherent toughness and the imperfections because there are no surface alterations or splitting.
Genuine Leather is not a statement about its authenticity. In a class of real leather products is lower in quality.
We use only Vegetable Tanned Leather for hand-crafting products. The tanning process stabilizes the protein of the raw hide or skin, preventing putrefaction, and preparing it for end applications. Vegetable tanning is the traditional, long-lasting process since ancient times. It refers to leather that is tanned using natural materials, mostly oak and spruce bark.
We avoid Chrome Tanned Leather which uses chromium and harsh chemicals in tanning process. It can be completed much quicker, typically in a matter of days.