Ensure your leather has lasting value
How much do you know about what your customers do with your leather? Should you know more? Mike Redwood discusses the importance of end use. Read More...
PRINT & DIGITAL
Leather objects tell the truth and should be conserved
Mike Redwood looks to the history of the leather industry and the importance of preserving historical objects made of leather. Read More...
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars achieves highest sales in history
Luxury automotive manufacturer Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has announced its financial results for 2022, achieving the highest annual sales in its history.
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A quiet revolution in tanning
In ILM's July/August edition, Content Director Martin Ricker looked at the rise of vegetable tanning and the fall of chrome tanning.
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Book commissioned to commemorate 200-year history of UK leather
Research on a history of the British leather industry from the early 19th Century to the present day will commence this summer. The historian, Ian Stone, has been commissioned to write the book and it is envisaged that final publication will be in late 2024.
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Master saddler cuts ribbon to reopen Leather Skills Centre
Suzie Fletcher, known for her work on BBC TV series ‘The Repair Shop’, has cut the ribbon to reopen Walsall’s Leather Skills Centre in central England.
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APLF launches online learning platform
APLF, organiser of the Asia-based exhibitions APLF and ACLE, has launched a new training platform for designers, merchandisers and fashion enthusiasts to learn more about leather.
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The leather industry has united for COP26
Our industry has not always been unified in the way it needs to be but getting a leather manifesto out ahead of COP26 is a great start, says Mike Redwood.
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Meeting the needs of an industry under strain
The leather industry, one of the oldest in the world, has survived many challenges throughout its long history.
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Just three words
Performance, sustainability and beauty. These three words have been embedded in leather for a million years in one form or another. Not a few thousand years as we often say, not tens of thousands but almost certainly one million years of leather.
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