Vegetable-tanned leather
Vegetable tanning has ancient origins and finds its highest expression in the hands of skilled Tuscan tanners. A process that combines experience and artisan tradition with the highest technology on the market. It is characterized by slow rhythms, which aim not only to respect, but also to enhance the natural characteristics of the leather.
Vegetable tanning does not use reagents and chemicals, but relies on tannins extracted from different types of trees and plants. Precisely for this reason, this type of processing is able to make the leather unique and durable over time.
Vegetable tanning is the most flourishing example of how only nature is able to enhance its own beauty: trees and skin, plant and animal. The balance of nature in Kelso Leather products.
Advantages of vegetable tanning
Thanks to vegetable tanning, leather ages without getting damaged: over time, instead of losing its characteristics, it acquires new shades that give character to the product.
Obtained from animals destined for slaughter, vegetable tanned leather, thanks to the treatment without toxic substances, can be easily disposed of at the end of its life cycle.
This type of processing totally excludes the use of substances such as azo dyes, nickel, pentachlorophenol and chromium VI, which are harmful to both humans and the environment.
Vegetable tanning does not affect the skin by modifying its natural characteristics, on the contrary it enhances them. Each leather thus becomes a truly unique piece, with its own character and history that will become more and more evident and interesting over time.
Vegetable tannins give the leather incredible shades and warm tones, which over time and use, rather than fade, tend to resurface, renewing the beauty of the leather itself.