Vegetable Tanned Leather Patina

The natural is a blank canvas no dyes just the natural tanning process from the tannery.

Vegetable tanned leather patina.

Getting the patina of vegetable tanned leather off to a good start is in fact an incredibly simple process.
How you handle the leather will show as it ages beautifully.
So a vegetable tanned leather product with an unfinished surface is the best candidate to develop a nice patina pull up leather is the next in patina hierarchy while finished chrome dyed leather will hardly ever develop one.

Full grain leather may grow a leather patina more easily than thinner cuts as well.
Like ageing it all just looks more and more interesting.
The process requires soaking the leather in drums or tanning pits.

Natural vegetable tanned leather starts off looking a range of different tones.
However with use these leathers develop a unique and rich patina.
It can look light beige light tan a slight bit pink or a very very light caramel.

While the saddle leather vegetable tanned is firm with a high tinsel strength it takes much more work to break in and soften up.
The end result is a symbol of quality from the natural tanning process.
Only the best quality hides are used to ensure maximum durability and strength.

The beauty of natural vegetable tanned leather and developing patina.
The colour technically referred to as finish.
Patent leather will almost never develop any patina.

In vegetable tanning organic materials like tree bark are used to tan the leather.
Some folks dont want to wait while enthusiasts are more than happy to spend the time necessary to earn their patina.
Due to the gentle processes involving several weeks of treatment the vegetable tanned leather has a much longer life than chrome tanned leather.

Every wallet we produce has a unique look.
The more protective pigments your bag has the less likely it is to grow a leather patina.
Not nearly as supple as its chrome tanned cousin vegetable tanned leather also comes in a more limited range of colors.

If your leather is vegetable tanned it will be more likely to grow leather patina than chrome tanned although these types still grow leather patina very easily.
One of the best features of vegetable tanned leather is that it develops a patina over time with prolonged use and exposure to the environment.
Vegetable leather also tends to scratch more easily than other types.

Each scratch will be your creation exposure to elements the denim you wear the oil in your hands all will show in the patina your item develops.
In the case of leather the drink will be some kind of natural conditioner.
Rather than coloring leather with chromium sulfate and acids vegetable tanned leather is tanned using tree bark.

Much like taking a british person abroad you give them a drink and put it in the sun.
The beautiful patina of natural vegetable tanned leather.
The only other ingredients are time water lime and a lot of heavy machinery.