21/11/2018

Native Tanned African Goat




A unique and rare leather, our Vegetable Tanned Farm Reared African Goats have a beautiful irregular grain pattern that is unique to this raw material. No two skins will ever be the same, and our natural finishes enhance the natural beauty of each and every skin by using aniline dyes and natural oils and waxes that highlight the grain character and natural markings of each skin. The goal is not to create perfectly uniform, pigmented leathers, but instead, beautiful, natural looking leathers with a vintage feel to them that only gets better with time. Each natural marking and blemish adds to the special character of each skin and to the rich, natural patina of the finished article.

The Natural African Grainlines in our Nubuck Marsh Leather

These Goat skins are all tanned by hand in clay pots using the Begaruwa seeds from the native Acacia Nilotica Trees. The skins are then all hand twisted to create the unique grain pattern that you see in the finished article. With our Heritage finishes, we aim to showcase the natural markings and unique irregular grain pattern to create one of a kind leathers that you will not find anywhere else in the world.

Begaruwa Seeds

We have developed many different finishes on this unique raw material, from shrunken grain, aniline bookbinding finishes, to hand buffed, antiqued, vintage look leathers. Each finish enhances the beauty of this unique, wild animal in a different way, and showcases its unique grain pattern, resulting in a rich, aniline leather that ages beautifully. The finished leather can then be either polished, burnished, distressed, washed or hand stained to create a huge variety of different looks.

The Original Mad Dog®

It was these unique African Goat skins that inspired our trademarked Mad Dog® leather. Our signature recipe of natural oils and waxes used in this finish was created on these African Goats more than 40 years ago and the same recipe is still used on this raw material to this day.




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