Description:

Just in case leather clothing is still the best insurance. But leather can be protected before, a lot of work is due.


Leather raw material is a waste product. Cattle, goat and deer skins fall namely in meat production. The skin consists of 65 percent water. In the tannery, in many steps (fleshing, hair removal, columns, tanning, dehydrating, sanding, staining, drying, milling, trimming) from the sensitive skin rugged leather. A cow from the slaughterhouse skin weighs 40 kilograms, the six-square-foot finished leather only slightly 5th For a normal leather jacket about 50 parts are sewn together, bring a pair of sports gloves it to 140 In an elaborate leather suit put up to 200 parts and 7.5 hours of work. Of these, about four hours sewing. This explains why most companies – including well-known brands – be in the Far East or Eastern Europe sew: The wage level where it is still low, and in the cutting and sewing workers are looking for skilled workers who earn in relation to most of their countrymen relatively well. The leather is the way robustete use kangaroo leather.

Leather types: predominantly cortical (partial-cut split leather), goat (in some areas), kangaroo (for sports boots)
Strengths: 1.5 to 1.7 millimeters (light sport boots), 1.9 to 2.5 millimeters (Tours),
2.5 to 3.5 millimeters (off)
Origin: Top quality from Europe (especially Germany, Italy), medium and low grades mostly from Asia (China, Pakistan)
Confection: Europe and Asia