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.
Colour is not a finish applied to leather, it is a decision about how the surface will behave. Here is how the three families of tone age, and which one fits the way you actually live.
Read the entry“Genuine leather” is a legal floor, not a quality signal. Here is how hides are split and finished, which grades keep the fibre structure worth keeping, and what each one costs you later.
Black, natural or colored, each tone in vegetable-tanned leather ages completely differently. Here is how to choose the one that matches how you actually live.
"Genuine leather" is the lowest legal grade of leather product. Full grain is the only term that actually means something and the only grade worth putting in a wallet built to last.
Roughly four out of five hides worldwide are chrome-tanned in under a day. Vegetable tanning takes weeks. That difference is the single biggest factor in how a wallet ages, and it has an environmental cost that runs both ways.
85% of the world's leather is chrome-tanned. Here's what that means for durability, patina, and the environmental cost of what you carry every day.
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