This should be a great day, fully supported by LeatherNaturally! The Leather Forum: Designing for Leather A one-day forum aimed at educating designers and fashion industry practitioners on the beautiful qualities of leather and the techniques and trends for utilising leather in their designs, be it for garments, bags, footwear or small leathergoods. Leather Forum: […]
Leather Naturally and sustainability
POSTED ON DECEMBER 20, 2012 Managing “Brand Leather” If you read the discussions group for LeatherNaturally!on LinkedIn you will be aware that the subject of environmental and sustainable leather production of leather in the developing world has been raised by Anthony Wright, of Barrhead Kid in Scotland, and Ian Michel of Amandian Leather in Northampton. Many […]
Good science not flash headlines.
POSTED ON OCTOBER 31, 2012 Good relations Anyone who follows @ICLTleather on Twitter will know that last week the University of Northampton hosted a Textile Institute Conference on leather. An attentive audience of industry personnel, with many from major brands, along with students from around the UK enjoyed what turned out to be a packed […]
Stahl, UNIDO and Owen Paterson joins the British Government
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 Two items below but multiple subjects A funny thing happened in Waalwijk today In Waalwijk today Stahl opened their new laboratory and a happy crowd drank copious amounts of beer and wine. Nothing new there. With openings in India and China and constant development in the Netherlands we have seen […]
SLTC Conference, Corium Club and Kano
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 29, 2012 Events, dear boy, events We have already spoken about how the SLTC conference on 28th April in Northampton looking interesting and the Textile conference (now postponed to October) but every year at Hong Kong the BLC along with the APLF have been running an afternoon seminar. The agenda this year […]
APLF, Pakistan and the Worshipful Company of Glovers
POSTED ON MARCH 9, 2011 It is getting intense The Corium Club dinner in Northampton is just a couple of weeks away on the 18th March. Paul Evans is the contact for tickets. It is to be held at the Oriental Garden Restaurant, 13 – 15 Sheep Street, Northampton NN1 2LT from 6:30pm and the guest speaker will […]
Hot in São Paulo
JANUARY 21, 2011 Hot in São Paulo It’s Tuesday and it is hot in São Paulo, and late afternoon some of the suburbs are flooded when a huge thunderstorm filled the skies with incredible rain for an hour. The lights and power went out at Cuoromoda and the 2ndInternational Leather Forum was nearly brought to […]
Back from Brazil
Hot in São Paulo It’s Tuesday and it is hot in São Paulo, and late afternoon some of the suburbs are flooded when a huge thunderstorm fills the skies with incredible rain for an hour. The lights and power go out at Cuoromoda and the 2nd International Leather Forum is nearly brought to a stop. […]
LeatherNaturally!
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 LeatherNaturally! For some time discussion has been going on about a Brand Leather generic campaign similar to WoolMark and the Cotton Council in the USA. With pressure on leather from new technical textiles, plastic materials at one end and some unchallenged claims by environmental NGOs at the other the time […]
Finding Alumni
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 9, 2010 Finding Alumni in Ethiopia and at APLF, Hong Kong Addis Ababa has probably the highest density of alumni of any City in the world. It has competition mainly from Karachi. So a visit to the All African leather fair in Addis is always going to be highlighted by many greetings […]