Vachetta leather

Vachetta leather - Vachette leather

Vachetta leather is untreated Italian leather often used in luggage and handbag trimming. This leather, which stains easily and darkens in sunlight, has been popularized by high-end brands such as Louis Vuitton and Coach.)

Vachetta leather or Vachette leather (from the French of vache = cattle) is little greased, vegetable-tanned leather from thin hides of cattle. The leather is soft and has a thickness of 1 - 2 millimeters. It is also rarely chromium-tanned.

Vachette leather is natural coloured and mainly used for bags, suitcases and saddles. However, it is also offered pigmented and / or embossed.

Bags made of vachetta leather.

Vache leather

Vache leather is a vegetable tanned cow leather, which isunsplit predominantly used as sole leather. In the English-speaking world, it often appears at leather bags.

Russet leather

Unter Russet leather versteht man pflanzlich gegerbtes, gefettetes Leder, das entweder naturfarbend oder gefärbt in den Handel kommt. Auf den Markt gelangen diese Leder zumeist in naturfahlgelben ("lohfarbenen") Tönen. Fahlleder wird hauptsächlich für Arbeitsschuhe und anderen, stark strapazierten Schuhprodukten verwendet. Es kann sowohl die Narbenseite als auch die Fleischseite nach außen getragen werden, was besonders bei Berg- und Wanderschuhen zu sehen ist. Fahlleder wird auch zu Taschen und Lederwaren verarbeitet.