Leather handbag handcrafted from Italian vegetable-tanned leather

- Italian environmentally friendly vegetable-tanned leather - silver color hardware - inside credit card pocket - adjustable strap on carabiners: width 2in/ 5cm, minimum length 23in / 62cm, maximum 35in / 90cm Dimensions centimeters: Height 17.5, width 20, depth 8 Dimensions inches: Height 7, width 8, depth 3 *Among the various tanning methods, the vegetable tanning is still nowadays the most traditional, the most recognizable, the only one able to give leather unique characteristics. It is able to join comfort and look, fashion and tradition, uniqueness and versatility of the product. Vegetable-tanned leather absorbs the traces of our life, it matures without ruining. Choosing a product made of Vegetable-Tanned Leather means choosing a one-of-a-kind object that reflects the owner’s lifestyle. Vegetable-tanned leather does not contain any toxic substance harmful to man and is highly tolerable for those who suffer from metal related allergies. The vegetable-tanned leather productive cycle is strictly monitored to ensure a low impact on the environment: - No animal is killed for its skin. On the contrary, the raw hides used by our tanneries are the discarded by-products of the food industry producing meat for human consumption. - Being tanned with natural tannins, a vegetable-tanned leather object can be easily disposed of at the end of its life, thanks to its chemical-biological characteristics. - Our tanneries have made huge investments in depuration systems and waste recycling that make them work in full respect of man and the environment. - Many of the substances used during the tanning process are recovered, recycled and reused in different fields. Hair removed from raw hides is transformed into agricultural fertilizer; sludge produced by the depuration plants is reused in the construction field to make bricks. - Vegetable-tanned leather, recognizable from its trademark, does not contain any toxic substance such as azo-dyes, nickel, PCP or chrome V