El Mato vegetable-tanned leather bags: “Every handcrafted product has a story to tell”
El Mato is not just an artisan workshop producing vegetable-tanned leather bags: it is the perfect example of merging work and life. In fact, the name derives from the initials of the words “Marta” and “Tommaso”, but in local dialect it also means “crazy” as their...
Nature Printing and tannin: the return to vegetable colours
Since prehistoric times, tannin has played a crucial role in the creation of colours, as the first form of visual communication. To get to the origins of the use of coloured pigments, we have to go back about 70,000 years, when Neanderthal man sprinkled the...
Tannin and sustainability in vegetable tanned leather
We often emphasise how vegetable tanned leather with tannins is to be preferred over synthetic materials and other leathers tanned with mineral-based products. Its elegance, beauty, unique scent and touch improve over time, taking on traces of our lives. Used for the...
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