What kind of experience has been Craft the Leather 2016 for you?
Giulia Andreoli
"Veg-tanned leather was for me a true discovery; before this workshop i didn’t know much about the product and the manufacturing process.
Thanks to the…
Vegetable tanning in Tuscany is an extraordinary productive process performed by the skilled hands of master tanners, based on the exact mix of natural tannins, on the good Tuscan water and on all the time necessary. It’s a…
Signs are a synonimum for veracity and real existence. Only signs dictacted by the flow of time are proof of what we have experienced, emotions and disappointments that opened our eyes and broke our heart.
Truth in our life…
"But I believe in one thing: each of us, for better or worse, is its own story. Indeed, his stories, including the ones not lived but only imagined and dreamed." This is one of the most important passages of…
I look at my vacchetta bag, stuffed as usual beyond reason: wallet, keys, books, notebooks, painting equipment, diary, pencil case, glasses, cigar boxes, pipes and tobacco and a Neapolitan lucky charm, a gift from a friend of mine who…
Leonardo Da Vinci, Tuscan historical personality, is the most concrete example of “universal genius”, namely a person whose knowledge is boundless. In Leonardo’s thought we find his baselines, in particular Aristotle and Plato. Leonardo retakes from Aristotle the…
According to Nuto Revelli, writer and essayist, "the war is the never healed wound that starts to bleed every time you touch it". A strong definition but completely comprehensive about what the war embodies in our memory and on…
There's a small town in the province of Turin where time doesn't seem to be passed. We're talking about Alpignano, 16,000 inhabitants, where we can admire the world's oldest typographical factory. A workplace that takes over a unique manufacturing…
How do colors of vegetable-tanned leather change?
We would like to introduce a report that outlines a research study aiming at verifying, on a scientific basis, the color transformations of the leather produced by the tanneries associated to the…
On November 25th. the Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium presented the event “Leather, water, tannins and the passion of Tuscan tanners”at Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo. The aim was to propose to Japanese business operators a whole…