The winner of the ninth edition of the competition Craft the Leather, a project partnering the Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather Consortium and international schools with a culture of making, is Wout Speyers from René Van den Berg Academy…
The new Board of Directors of Consorzio Vera Pelle Italiana Conciata al Vegetale (Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium) appointed President Leonardo Volpi at the Consortium’s leadership for the next two years: 2021-2022.
He will be assisted in his…
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I love my country. I am certainly a fortunate person. Even in the short distance that separates my home from my workplace, I can turn to see the old Venetian villas and a most enchanting tenth century…
Vegetable tanned leather, because of the naturalness of its processing, tends to exalt its original characteristics, that is the small wrinkles and veins on the animal skin. For that reason the raw hides we use must be of top quality.…
Men were tanners much earlier than farmers. The first written documentation on the art of tanning dates back to 1250 BC and is then found repeatedly along the entire history of civilization, from ancient Greece to Rome, from…
to understand a reality, be it social or productive, we must have clear the area in which it has been developed. The industrial district of Santa Croce sull’Arno and Ponte a Egola, known as Comprensorio del Cuoio e della Calzatura…
One of the fundamental activities of Genuine Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather Consortium is to protect, discipline and regulate the production of Pelle Conciata al Vegetale in Toscana and to make it known to designers, producers and consumers.
Pelle Conciata al…
Born of an original idea by Edoardo Passi, young designer winner of the International Design Contest PELLE+, Allinone is a special bag, it seems to contain the stories of hundreds of different lives, of a whole life. It’s made of…
In order to use the trademark Vegetable Tanned Leather in Tuscany, our associated tanneries must comply with the Technical Production Regulations issued by Consortium. This document is not a simple modus operandi which associated tanneries can change some parts but it's…
Vacchetta leather is a Tuscan tradition and to get acquainted with it we propose you an interview to Giovanni Tempesti, co-owners of Conceria Tempesti S.p.A. and founder of Genuine Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather Consortium.
Let'start from the beginning: what's the…