How to care for vegetable-tanned leather without ruining it
Most leather damage we see is not wear, it is well-meaning maintenance. Six habits that keep a vegetable-tanned wallet in good shape for a decade, and the products to keep away from it.
Nautical Chronicles
Field notes from the Dubai workshop: how vegetable-tanned leather is chosen, cut, stitched and cared for, plus the reasoning behind every decision we make in leather.
A week in the Dubai workshop, cut by cut
Nine people, one bench room and a cutting table that has not moved since the room was built. A walk through the actual sequence of gestures that turns a hide into a finished wallet.
What “sustainable leather” should mean, and where the industry falls short
Leather is a byproduct of the meat industry, which makes it a genuinely complicated environmental story. We set out what we have solved, what we have not, and the questions we now ask every supplier.
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