Vegetable Tanned Leather Vs Chrome Tanned Leather
What exactly is tanning? First things first, let’s talk about leather tanning itself, which is in its essence, transforming animal skins into actual leather. The transformation of animal skin into a piece of leather is primarily achieved by removing water molecules from the collagen of the skin, (which is the protein that the skin consists of). However when drawing out the skin might get ruined, as it gets dry and inflexible. Hence, since ancient times, (literally for thousands of years), people have been soaking the skins in natural tannings to dehydrate the leather, which replaces the water molecules and binds with the collagen, preventing the part where the leather goes stiff and inflexible! These vegetable tanning solutions are made up...