Stage 01 — Origin
Raw Hide
Hides arrive as a by-product of the food industry, bought from a closed list of suppliers with traceable, documented origin. Nothing enters the yard without provenance, and nothing is raised for its skin alone.
Day 0
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The Craftsmanship Journey
Eight stages,one record.
From a raw hide with provenance to a crate at the port — and a documented inspection at the end of it that travels with your shipment.
Leather cannot be hurried. Every stage below takes the time it takes, and a person signs it off before the next one starts.
What follows is not a marketing sequence. It is the actual route a hide takes through our building, with the people who own each stage and the time each one needs. Compliance teams are welcome to walk it in person.
Stage 02 — Grading
Selection
Each hide is opened, laid flat and read by hand for substance, marking and cutting yield. This is where character is separated from damage — and where a hide is matched to what it will eventually become.
Day 1—2
Stage 03 — Transformation
Tanning
Chrome, vegetable and combination tanning in controlled drums and pits, with effluent treated on site before discharge. Vegetable tanning with bark extracts is the slowest route we offer, and the one that ages best.
Day 3—21
Stage 04 — Softening
Milling & Staking
Hours of tumbling relax the fibre until the hide breaks the way the design needs it to. Softness is not a setting; it is time, and the finisher decides when it has had enough.
Day 22—26
Stage 05 — The laboratory
Colour
Aniline dyes soak into the hide rather than sit on it, so the grain stays visible through the colour. Recipes are matched to your Pantone or your swatch, proved on a lab dip, and only then run at scale.
Day 27—32
Stage 06 — Surface
Finishing
Wax, oil, foil, print, perforation, emboss. Some of it is machine work held to a tolerance; the burnishing and the hand-dyeing are exactly what they sound like — a person, a cloth and a judgement call.
Day 33—38
Stage 07 — The record
Inspection
Rub cycles, light fastness, tear strength, substance, colour consistency. The result is written down, signed, and travels with the goods. Nothing leaves the building on a verbal pass.
Day 39—41
Stage 08 — Delivery
Export
Rolled, laid flat or crated to survive the route, with documentation and certification coordinated in-house. FOB, CIF and DDP, to your port.
Day 42+
Lead times
21–30
days — finished leather, from order confirmation.
25–35
days — hair-on hide, subject to selection and approval.
45–60
days — finished leather goods, including sampling.