What is vegetable tanned leather?
Vegetable tanning is an ancestral method of transforming animal skins into leather. It consists of using plant tannins to make the skin rot-proof and water-resistant. Plant tannins are natural substances found in plants, bark, leaves or fruits. They are extracted from these materials by maceration or distillation.
How does vegetable tanning work?
Here are the stages of vegetable tanning process:
What are the advantages of vegetable tanning?
Vegetable tanning has many advantages, including:
Vegetable-tanned leather shoes
Vegetable tanning is an ethical and sustainable technique that gives a unique and authentic appearance to leather. Vegetable tanned leather shoes take on a unique patina over the years. All our VGT models are made from vegetable-tanned European bovine leathers. These leathers are tanned in European tanneries certified by the Leather Working Group, a label which guarantees environmentally friendly tanning.