In their November 1922 Newsletter, the Textile Exchange how they would in future define leather. This is the definition the leather industry has been using throughout the 20th century and on, but has failed to enforce. Italy recently passed a new law supporting this approach and Brazil did so as far back as the 1960s […]
Its All in the Name
The big news capturing headlines in the leather industry in the last week has been man made beef burgers. Pretty ugly things with added blood of unborn calves and all sorts of taste and colour modifiers. More importantly and much closer to market is the 3D printing of a fibrous collagen material that has come […]