Officer Dibley
Well-Known Member
I’ve said it on someone else’s thread: the 100% veg tanning of modern repros is bullsh1t. It is a lie peddled to rip us off. It is wrong on two counts imho.
1. It’s a lot more expensive. I’ve bought some veg tanned hide to work with and do experiments on. I know i’ll not have economies of scale but what i paid for the amount of hide was not much more expensive than chrome tanned / analine.
2. I think its’ use was far less prevalent than ELC etc state. The need for leather. For a lot of jackets to be made NOW.
I think that every time you see a period photo of a jacket and think it drapes a lot and the hide must be thinner, you are looking at chrome tanned / analine. Every time the jackets looks stiffer, it’s veg tanned.
Based on my tests, veg tanned is not as waterproof as analine. Not as flexible. Far noisier. Harder to break in, it never gets as flexible as analine.
We can't compare vintage jackets now because they are old, treated well or not, the hide is in a different state to when it was made.
I’ve been carrying and pulling about some veg tanned hide for a month. It remains stiff and inflexible and noisy.
Have at me guys, send me down in flames !!
Dave
1. It’s a lot more expensive. I’ve bought some veg tanned hide to work with and do experiments on. I know i’ll not have economies of scale but what i paid for the amount of hide was not much more expensive than chrome tanned / analine.
2. I think its’ use was far less prevalent than ELC etc state. The need for leather. For a lot of jackets to be made NOW.
I think that every time you see a period photo of a jacket and think it drapes a lot and the hide must be thinner, you are looking at chrome tanned / analine. Every time the jackets looks stiffer, it’s veg tanned.
Based on my tests, veg tanned is not as waterproof as analine. Not as flexible. Far noisier. Harder to break in, it never gets as flexible as analine.
We can't compare vintage jackets now because they are old, treated well or not, the hide is in a different state to when it was made.
I’ve been carrying and pulling about some veg tanned hide for a month. It remains stiff and inflexible and noisy.
Have at me guys, send me down in flames !!
Dave
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