And wouldn’t the leather on everybody’s Togo and Clemence bags look the same? I have random veins all over my Togo bag.
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probably the veining is already there before the embossing. some boxcalf bags also have faint veins, which is more characteristic of the skin rather than the process.
Guess we can believe what one person posted from visiting a tannery, or what Hermes and every leather expert has said since the leathers were introduced. They must have an incredible amount of patterns for the grains to be so unique on so many bags.
The silk carrés are made in Lyon and - according to the SA who told me this - priced way too low for the amount of labor done.
some Tadelakt has veining too.
you can easily see that the grains are unnatural by the way they form a sort of an even "grid" when looked at from a certain angle
This is a picture from the Hermes website of a sac a depeches in black togo
And Hermes suppliers are using some sort of magical machine to emboss a pattern around veins instead of embossing a pattern over them. Let's agree to disagree and just drop the topic please.
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Learned today that there are 5 heritage leathers: Box, Barenia, Pig, Hunter and then one more that my SA did not remember the name of. I have never heard about the Pig leather and am wondering what is/was made in that. Anyone that knows the 5th?
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The pig, aka Peau de Porc, has a thread: https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/ode-to-peau-porc.990775/
I wonder if the fifth might be Vache Naturelle, or perhaps Chamonix? I have no idea, really, but I recall those being mentioned in the same hushed tones as Box and Barenia. Beluga also comes to mind as a wildcard, though I'm unsure how frequently used it was (and I would assume, closer to rarely than commonly).
I knew this. I read someplace that the Evelyne was created to hold horse grooming tools. If this is true, wouldn't it make more sense to have the H facing outward to keep getting air on any sweaty grooming tools?
Peau de porc is peccary (Tayassuidae), which is very different from pigskin (Suidae). The characteristics of both leathers are very different (soft and pliable vs hard and inelastic).
They are also a CITES protected species so it’s always good to remember to keep the paperwork !