This leather comes from calves in the north of Spain and is the typical quality Spanish leather.
This leather is used to create the main body of aprons with their corresponding straps that match. The straps are created with two hand-stitched pieces of leather with waxed linen thread and saddle stitching which makes them very durable and gives them an unrivalled finish.
This leather recovers very well, any scrape can be repaired by rubbing it with a simple cotton cloth. This is the kind of leather that gradually acquires such appealing character over time, which is what happens with good vegetable tanning leather.
This leather comes from young animals and undergoes vegetable tanning (with tannins) and is finished with vegetable oils, therefore the result is a soft fine grain leather that is very elastic. We use this leather with a 1.2 mm thickness and the approximate weight of an apron body made with this leather is 550 grams.
This is the type of leather that has been used in Spain for centuries to create the best saddles, straps, footwear, etc.
These straps are available in two models: Zahón and Classic.
This leather can be chosen in three colours: chocolate, tobacco and black.
Vegetable tanning is the traditional tanning method. It is called vegetable because only vegetable extracts from tannin-rich plants are used. At present, only 10% of the leather produced in Spain undergoes this type of tanning, the rest is tanned with chrome, an industrial process that is more aggressive, and which results in leather that is rectified and uniform. In addition to being the most natural and respectful towards the environment, vegetable tanning is the only type that can give the leather its unique characteristics.