The Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium is a no-profit organization with 22 affiliated tanneries, all operating in the Tuscan Leather District and sharing the same standards of production: to update tradition searching a balance between innovation and ancient methods…
From Friday through Sunday, October 28-30, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) will host the second edition of Leather Footwear Futures, a series of workshops and discussion centered on vegetable tanned leather and its peculiarities.
For Consortium is not…
The new Magazine of Genuine Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather Consortium is online! It's an editorial product organized in sections, but also a place open to conversation and interaction with the users.
The Magazine consists in 7 sections: “Editorial”, in…
I always thought that people start to write on a blog for two reasons: having something to tell, or being a little sick and tired of listening always to the same things from someone who has something to say. I'd like…
Tuscany is a land of excellence, creativity, knowledge and ancient craft that are passed on from generation to generation. Tuscan vegetable tanned leather is a concrete example of this but it’s not the only one; actually there are…
Florence and art: an inseparable pairing. When we think of the city’s immense beauty, or simply admire it or wonder what to see in Florence, we come up against Brunelleschi’s Dome. A sfully-fledged work of art that makes…
A town inside the town. The left Arno riverbank, usually called Diladdarno – name not easy to replace with the more common and up-to-date “Oltrarno” for Florentine people – is the forge where the main manufacturing activities developed…
Signs have something unexpectedly magic inside, as they can be the results of choices or memories. Signs inherited by the passing of time prove our way of life and remind us our past. They are the evident proof…