Materials
Three things make a piece of leather worth keeping for thirty years. We obsess about all three, and we hold every partner brand we carry to the same bar.
Materials
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Grass-fed cattle from the Paraguayan Chaco and Itapúa departments, with selected hides from Brazil and Argentina when a project asks for them. Open pasture, slow growth, fewer scars. We trace every batch back to its tannery and, where possible, its region.
100% Latin American hides
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Vegetable-tanned with quebracho bark in family-run Paraguayan tanneries. No chrome, no heavy metals, no aldehydes — a process that takes weeks instead of hours and ages with character rather than cracking.
Quebracho · 4–6 week cure
03
Hand-cut, hand-stitched in small batches by partner workshops we know by name. Edges burnished. Hardware in solid brass. Every imperfection is the hide telling its own story — we never sand it out.
Hand-finished, small batch
From the Chaco
Paraguay raises more cattle per person than almost anywhere on earth — and has been tanning hides for centuries. We work with the same families who have been doing this for generations.
When the Spanish first arrived in the upper Paraná in the 1500s, the territory that is now Paraguay was already trading hides. Five centuries later, the Chaco grasslands still produce some of the most resilient, slow-grown cattle on the continent — fewer parasites, fewer scars, denser fibres. We partner with small Paraguayan tanneries that have been working with quebracho bark since their great-grandparents' generation, and supplement with Brazilian and Argentine hides when the project asks for it. The EU–Mercosur Partnership Agreement, signed in January 2026, eliminated the 35% European tariff on Latin American leather — sharpening a market that was already on a 20%+ annual growth trajectory. Nothing leaves the workshop until it would survive a generation of use.
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