We see it as the difference between oil-finished natural wood versus painted wood. Photo credit: Erin Berzel for DK Publishing Hand-rubbing oil dye into full-grain vegetable-tanned leather. Very few workshops do this kind of work by hand anymore. In some workshops, that means airbrushing, sometimes with acrylic paints, but in our workshop that means rubbing in oil dye by hand. This kind of leather gets colored and dyed by hand in the workshop. The surface has had the hair removed and lightly sanded, but the natural textures still show up in the grain - the creases, wrinkles, insect bites, and stretch marks. This means that it can't become white unless it were somehow bleached. The shape is natural and the color is natural, which is a light tan / almost light pink color. As shown in the Hermann Oaks factory tour, the leather comes to us as a half hide that is a fairly blank canvas.
This is the kind of leather we use in the workshop.
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And we'll talk about why we do it the hard way, finishing our full grain vegetable-tanned cowhide by hand in the workshop. In this post, we walk through some of the finishing options, including coloring, coatings, and waxes.
Some finishing treatments provide useful shortcuts for those in the workshops and factories making products out of leather. Many of the treatments are done to obscure the actual quality of the leather. The finishing process is where much of the confusion between leathers come from. Once a cowhide is preserved for long life through tanning, the tannery can choose to apply any number of finishing treatments to it to change, enhance, or obscure its look, feel, or durability - or not, because natural leathers can be finished in the workshop.
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