Arizona Raw is a versatile drum dyed, vegetable tanned leather. To give softness to the hides, a mixture of vegetable and animal oils, called “Sego”, composed of straw, ruby, moelleon oil etc. are used. The colors will darken with age and use, creating a beautiful patina. The tannery created this leather so it could be worked and shaped to the…
The Essex, Dublin and Derby are tanned using Horween’s 100 year old Cordovan veg tan liquor formula. Dublin is a bit more rugged looking than the Essex leather it starts off as. The hides are infused with wax and then heat plated which enhances the grain, creates a pull-up effect and adds a bit more rigidity than the leather. Just…
