COVENANT is a furniture leather produced on selected european hides, where quality of grain is carefully evaluated . The hides are processed with a traditional beamhouse process of liming and tanning, with long time in wooden drum to ensure a better quality of the grain . COVENANT is a pure drum dyed aniline leather, than dried by toggling and snuffed to obtain and enhance writing effect. The hides are retanned with a combination of synthan and waxes, than toggle dried to give a firm hand and a smooth surface, combined than with a special retanning process which enhances the natural beauty of this aniline leather. This article is hand sanded by skilled craftmen , which works with special tools to buff the surface of the hide and obtain a typical “ vintage” effect . A thin layer of water repellant product is sprayed at the end of the process to give certain protection to water drop and allow to be dried with a cotton pad in case of need. Growth marks, healed scars and all natural factors that have influenced the hide are part of the look of the finished leather . Color variation within the hide or from hide to hide are part of the natural soul of this item. COVENANT is e leather studied to combine the warmness of the nubuck surface to the gentle hand of a toggle dried , than with hand sanding by skilled craftmen a special look is achieved. To clean this leather we suggest the use of specific cleaning kits for aniline upholstery leather available in the market . The leather is sensible to heating sources and direct light, which may cause fading of the color and we strongly suggest to avoid as much as possible to have the finished product too close to these factors.
bovine / wet blue - aniline hand antique
thickness 1,0 - 1,2
*lightin with 5500k
