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Why some leather smells bad

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I get too many phone calls revolving around the same question: “What does your leather smell like?” Usually with the follow up question, “well… does it smell like poop?” At first, I thought this was just a random array of leather lovers that found themselves with a product made from bad

Vegetable Tanning: The Original Way

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All leather goes through a tanning process that gives it the color and characteristics that people find appealing and fashionable.  The two most common forms of tanning, vegetable and chrome tanning, each have their benefits, but we continually find that we prefer veg-tanned leather. Why we prefer vegetable tanning Vegetable tanning

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