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Minerva Smooth is a full-grain, vegetable-tanned side from Badalassi Carlo in Tuscany, tanned with tree barks and certified by the Pelle Vegetale Consortium. It is a vacchetta leather infused with a blend of Italian fat wax, giving it a supple hand with a little firmness, a smooth grain and color that runs through the hide. It is aimed at leatherworkers making wallets, bags, straps and cases who want a traditional veg tan that darkens into a rich patina. Against stiffer, drier veg tans it cuts and skives more easily and feels softer in the hand, though it is not the cheapest or most uniform hide on the bench.
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Buyers rate it highly and praise the hand, the smooth grain and the depth of color. Makers say it cuts and skives cleanly and takes a patina well.
Minerva Smooth is a vegetable tanned vacchetta leather from the Badalassi Carlo Tannery in Tuscany, Italy. The tannery uses traditional methods of tanning with tree barks that go back hundreds of years. It is a member of the Pelle Vegetale Consortium, which certifies leather tanned with strict traditional vegetal methods.
This is the tannery's top grade of this leather. It is full grain, with a supple feel and a small amount of firmness. The leather is infused with a blend of Italian fat wax, which gives it the hand and feel associated with the vacchetta name. It has a smooth grain and depth of color, and it is dyed completely through. The flesh side is soft.
The leather is easy to cut and skive. As a vegetable tanned leather, it develops a patina as it ages.
