Narrator: This is said to be the world's oldest leather-making tradition. It's called vegetable tanning, and it's a process that has been perfected over generations here in Tuscany. Artisans spend ...

Nearly 5sqft of leather goes into making a pair of shoes and the process leaves more than 70 grams of chemical-laced soslid leather waste.

Don’t worry, though, because this guide will walk you through the entire process. Leather is an important material ... you’ll first need to get their Hides and then you can turn those into Leather at ...

The tanning process takes between three and four weeks, and 19 employees now produce 10,000 skins, or nearly a tonne, of fish leather a month. "The fish smell disappears in the early stages ...

One of the first companies they worked with was Garden State Tanning (GST). Sean Traynor was executive sponsor for the transformation to lean at GST. He tells us about the fascinating process of ...