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The best bull leather selection made the best belts
INDESTRUCTIBLE BELTS
The leather choice
//this article has been translated with google translate, a human review is pending//
The selection of leathers, a decisive step. The leather selection for making belt is an important step for both the customer and the factory. The initial quality of the skin determines the final quality of the product.
We are all aware today that the ecological aspect and of primary importance, tanneries are industries which can be extremely polluting, we are not teaching you anything when we say that most of the leathers used by shoe brands at very affordable ones are imported from Bangladesh, tanned with chrome on the ground by workers working barefoot; the residues of the tanning baths being directly evacuated in the street.
Highlighting this will allow us to clarify certain important points concerning our products:
The range of Bulljeans men's belts is exclusively made from vegetable-tanned bull leather from a French tannery. Our suppliers make specific baths to meet BullJeans quality standards. Obtaining supple leather, a clean and natural shade, while working with the thickest leathers on the market, requires real expertise and essential know-how. One of the specificities of BullJeans belts is their thickness, between 4 and 5 mm depending on the skin, only vegetable tanning allows a deep tint (called through tint) of the belt, it would simply be unthinkable to make a BullJeans with tanned leather. chromium.
A first quality leather will give a first quality belt and this whatever the way or the final style, in our trades the raw material more than in other activity is essential. By way of comparison: 1 m² of leather tanned with chrome in a country with attractive labor and without respect for the environment costs around 17€, a similar piece tanned in a vegetable way in France, in other words in baths of tanning consisting essentially of natural and entirely recycled elements costs around $125 per m² and takes at least twice as long.
You therefore measure the difference in cost depending on the choice of quality and origin of the skins used.
THE LEATHERS ''CUT''
The leathers cutting following the selection of the skins allows us a second selection of the pieces and especially will define the width of the desired belt, the garot house respects the traditions, first cut by hand then cut the leather strips according to the template.
The preparation of the raw leather straps that will later serve as a basis for the manufacture of the belt takes place immediately after the selection of the skins. Given the fact that our leathers are dyed and nourished during the tanning process a second selection is made after the first cut in order to keep only the pieces that will give straps with maximum character. Indeed, depending on whether your belt will be cut in the middle or at the beginning of the skin it will have a different appearance from simply the natural reaction of the skins during vegetable tanning and their positioning in the tanks.
Although the goal is a standardization of shades according to the models we want to manufacture, this is simply impossible with natural dyes in the mass, hence the uniqueness of each belt. For information a perfectly uniform shade is possible thanks to a surface dye, the same principle as the paint in bodywork but on the skins in order to standardize them.
Being purists, we consider, for the range of BullJeans belts, that this stage of standardization goes against the essence of our brand which highlights the unique aspect of each, we like the raw and singular side of our belts.
Surface painting is superfluous. We use this process for other models of leather belts that require very bright colors, but that's another story for another range.
