As well as the overall winner of Real Leather. Stay Different. International Student Design Competition 2022, in association with ArtsThread, several other category award winners were announced at the awards party in London on November 2.
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Pangea, a leading global supplier of automotive leather, announced an even stronger partnership with the American Leather Chemists Association (ALCA), urging members to think differently. “This is a group that truly drives our industry to higher standards, silently embracing and defining the sustainability of materials.”
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In his final comment of 2021, Mike Redwood looks at sheep and examines all of the benefits they have offered us throughout history, from leather to wool to felt.
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Lambskin prices in Australia are reported to be at their highest for the past three years which has been driven by demand from China according to local media reports.
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The Outdoor Industry is one of the best from an environmental point of view. This is logical because its whole future depends on stopping mankind doing more harm to the planet, and its customers have the same interest. It also has a number of constituent companies such as Patagonia who have from the start been leading thinkers about how to make industry compatible with conservation thinking.
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It is easy to understand why so many were saying that events in China "overshadowed" the ACLE. In many ways, the Shanghai ACLE started 18 years ago just so that events could overshadow it. The hum drum tanner could observe and, with luck, safely get involved in a nation whose annual growth was so different from anything seen before.
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Leather making is an ancient industry, yet there are today few young people working in our field. At least this seems to be the case in the U.S. When most people think of leather, they think of fashion, style and, durability. Today, when you want to stay up-to-date on trends and fashion, you would ask a Millennial (ie; a person reaching young adulthood at the time of the millennium) what is new and fresh.
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In the leather industry we measure, or rather estimate, use of leather using six categories. Footwear, furniture, automobile, leathergoods, garments and gloves. I read the other day that leather used to be mostly destined for shoes but that interest in automobile leather had changed all that. If that is what you think then I suggest you nip down to your local library, if it still exists, and check out a bit of history.
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