Leather - fur - BIO?

As is well known, real leather / fur comes from animals - that's why it is not a harmless product!

Traditionally, leather is a waste product from the meat industry and can therefore be viewed as a sustainable use of what is already there.

The term "organic leather" is not protected and is therefore not used uniformly.

Many leather manufacturers refer to vegetable tanned leather as organic leather.

We do NOT use the term BIO leather for our products.

In our eyes, this creates the mistaken impression that the leather comes from

of animals from species-appropriate husbandry.

The acquisition of leather, from the pure point of view of species-appropriate husbandry,

was unfortunately only possible in exceptional cases so far.

Leather hides / leather scraps can nowadays be bought cheaply on many platforms.

In most cases, however, these leathers come from low-wage countries.

For the most part, leather from industrial mass production is tanned with toxic chemicals.

Cheap leather mostly comes from Asia (e.g. Bangladesh), where there are hardly any effective environmental and occupational health and safety standards.

For this reason we buy our leather from German tanneries.

Most of our leathers are vegetable or mineral tanned.

In addition, the laws and tests that apply to us ensure high standards for the product, the environment and people - thus a pollutant-free end product.

We buy our cowhides from a small tannery that does animal skins on a contract basis

tanned by cattle from the surrounding farms.

A long-established family business that has been exclusively for generations

uses vegetable substances for the individual tanning processes.

We were there and looked at everything.

The skins we have purchased are from rare, small ones

Cattle breeds such as the Dexter cattle.

These animals are very robust and therefore often live outdoors all year round.

Very exotic skins come from Argentina - where cattle are usually still kept in large groups in the open air. Unfortunately, the cattle in Argentina no longer have as much land available (nowadays needed for soy cultivation).

as was the case until 15-20 years ago.

We generally do not buy calfskin or calfskin !!

We often receive criticism because we use FELL ...

Remember - fur is leather to which the hair is still attached.

Fewer production steps are required during manufacture than with leather!

Also - do not wear leather shoes, handbags, briefcases, purses, etc ...?!?

We go mindfully and consciously through our everyday life and that's exactly how we keep it

with the purchase of goods and the manufacture of our products