Exclusive Leather
Luxury is All About Choosing The Right Exclusive Leather
This is how all exclusive leather creations are born, unique and inimitable, true result of traditional craftsmanship, research and experience handed down from generation to generation. Most of our leathers are tanned using the exclusive “vegetable tanning” method.
Exclusive Leather
This is a manufacturing process that does not use chemicals, being able to give to the leather a young, living appearance which exalts itself over time. For centuries, master tanners have handed down this artisan tradition, enriched over time by sophisticated technology. This work is a slow process which transforms the raw hides into fine leathers, based on the exclusive use of natural vegetable tannins.
The vegetable tanning is called “slow tanning”, as many days of intense and careful work are necessary to achieve it. First of all, vegetable tanning means the use of natural tanning products extracted from tree barks such as: quebracho, chestnut tree and mimosa tree. The early phases of the procedure are called “liming” and “deliming”. In these processes, the first layer of hair is removed from the green-salted bovine hides (so called because they are treated with salt for their maintaining) and they take place i nside big drums of iroko wood. Later on the hide is ready for the real tanning phase prepared with natural extracts and it lasts 2 or 3 days. The leather is then pressed for removing the residual water.
The following step is called “fattening”; mixtures made up of animal-vegetable origin oils are added to the hide still inside the drums. At this stage the hides are ready for being well stretched and dried- out in apposite dry and ventilated rooms in order to remove all the humidity. Then the hides are ready to be hand-dyed, for the “padding phase” or to be finished. The vegetable tanned leather maintains its characteristics of naturalness and biodegradability unchanged in time, and it is suitable for those who are allergic to chromium.
TUSCANY | CAT. EXTRA LUXURY
Half calf skins vegetable tanned. European origin. The tanning process in barrels, thanks to the use of plant extracts of mimosa tree bark or chestnut, gives each skin its own unique color transparency, unique in the natural unevenness of absorption, which is a sign of life and movement. Each skin is buffered by hand with vegetable and animal oils to enhance the clarity and brilliance.
Average size of each skin: 2,3 sqm
Average thickness: 1,8 mm
Assessment of ignitability : BS 5852 1990 (Cigarette test)
Assessment of ignitability : BS 5852 1990 (Butan gas flame test)
PLUME | CAT. SUPERIOR
Selected hides from bulls of european origin. Full grain, semi aniline, tanned with through dyeing aniline. The different phases of the tanning process allow to obtain an extraordinary softness to the touch , combined with a great superficial resistance and a remarkable ease of the cleaning and maintenance operations
Average thickness : 1.8 Mm average size of each hide : 5.0 Sqm
GRASSE | CAT. SUPERIOR
European origin bulls. The different tanning processes wet blue and the repeated “steps in the barrel” bring to light the characteristics of the whole hides wrinkles. The tincture is made with aniline so as to leave the full grain free and predisposed to a light buffing that highlights the color contrast between the surface and the depth of wrinkles. This process gives it a velvety effect, and a remarkable softness.
Average size of each skin: 5 sqm Average thickness: 2,00-2,2 mm
NABUK | CAT. TOP
Cattle hides of European origin bulls, tanned with chrome tanned with aniline dye. Protected with water-repellent barrel products. The skins after the normal tanning cycle are machined with a slight grinding that gives it the powdery and velvety effect, in addition to its softness.
Thickness 2.2, mq 5,5
KASHMIR | CAT. TOP
Half calf skins vegetable tanned. European origin. The tanning process in barrels, thanks to the use of plant extracts of mimosa tree bark or chestnut, gives each skin its own unique color transparency, unique in the natural unevenness of absorption, which is a sign of life and movement. Each skin is buffered by hand with vegetable and animal oils to enhance the clarity and brilliance.
Average size of each skin: 2,3 sqm
Average thickness: 1,8 mm
Assessment of ignitability : BS 5852 1990 (Cigarette test) Assessment of ignitability : BS 5852 1990 (Butan gas flame test)
