A Manifesto for Leather on the occasion of COP29 Buy better, buy less, buy leather Consumption is one of the key drivers for man-made climate change. Consumers are driven to want more, buy more and ultimately discard more and more products, many of which are of poor quality, have short life spans and are designed […]
62nd John Arthur Wilson Lecture, 2023.
it was quite a surprise at this stage in my career to be asked to give such an important industry lecture and a great honour. I thought COVID had killed it, but made it to Wisconsin for what was an outstanding symposium 62nd John Arthur Wilson Lecture, 2023. 117th Annual Convention Retelling “Viewing Leather Through […]
The Leather Manifesto
Our Materials Impact our Climate (November 2021 COP 26 statement from the leather industry. Hopefully more leather bodies will publicly align with this statement and promote it in the next weeks and months, and build on it as we look forward to COP27 and beyond) The world needs materials that are sustainable, renewable, recyclable, biodegradable, […]
Mary Chan won the 2020 Design-a-Bag competition
I was very pleased to be invited to interview Mary Chan who won last year’s APLF Design-a-Bag competition with an really clever use of leather to produce a design that perfectly meet the very specific criteria. It is really inspiring to hear her talk about her material choice and thoughts on sustainability. The video is […]
Italian success. Leather is Leather: no exceptions allowed
I am not a great fan of lobbying. Too often it is about businesses failing to realise that change is happening or that uncomfortable science needs to be accepted, and trying to hold society back through the power of their wealth. Sometimes though it is necessary and the little guy makes a breakthrough. The Italian […]
Definition of Leather
Legal Definition, BS 2780 Definition In the UK a definition of leather is set out in the British Standard Glossary of Leather Terms (BS 2780) and this definition is used as a guide in applying consumer protection legislation such as the Sale of Goods Act and the Trade Descriptions Act. In short, if a product […]
The Leather Law
There is a lot of talk these days about the definition of leather. Legal Definition, BS 2780 (1983) Definition In the UK a definition of leather is set out in the British Standard Glossary of Leather Terms (BS 2780) and this definition is used as a guide in applying consumer protection legislation such as the […]
Changing Culture and its implications
Over the last few weeks I have been using my weekly items for International Leather Maker to dig into the concept of changing culture. Not in a particularly sophisticated way, but rather to consider how good regulation, properly enforced can push companies along a positive path. From the about 1970 onwards the leather industry in […]
Looking at the Danube
I have just spent the morning sailing in a tiny boat around the Danube Delta seeing how it is still trying to recover from the long communist era when the plains along the Danube were aggressively farmed to produce grains for Russia using huge amounts of fertiliser much of which ended up in the river. […]
The importance of good science
POSTED ON JULY 1, 2016 Brexit “democracy needs experts” Given that our Corium Club alumni are all scientists to a greater or lesser degree many who read this will also be reading this week’s editorial in the New Scientist (NS). If not it is worth buying the magazine for. The point it makes is short […]
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