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Origin
Grass-fed cattle from the Paraguayan Chaco and Itapúa departments. Open pasture, slow growth, fewer scars. We trace every batch back to its tannery and, where possible, its region.
100% Latin American hides
Materials
Origin, tanning, finish.
Three things make a piece of leather worth keeping for thirty years. We obsess about all three.
Materials
Three obsessions.
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Tanning
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
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Finish
Hand-cut, hand-stitched in small batches. 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
A country that built itself on leather.
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 exotic Brazilian and Argentine hides when the project asks for it. Nothing leaves the workshop until it would survive a generation of use.
Credentials
Things we can prove.
- 100% Full-grain
- Quebracho bark Vegetable-tanned
- LWG-rated partners Tanneries
- Asunción → worldwide Ships from