Advanced Molding?

[Tree Reaper]

Is it really leather or composites such as soft bioplastic resin or "manmade" leather?

[Willbury]

Is it really leather or composites such as soft bioplastic resin or "manmade" leather?

They claim it's veg tan calf leather you can see some more examples here. I've tried to look at some of their larger pictures, some of the items appear to have some small creases in them. This could be from forcing the leather into a mold, or they could be a glued seam.....

[HellfireJack]

If it's Italian then I would assume it's made like a Florence leather box. It's not actually seamless. The seams are hidden by burnishing and waxing.

Here's a video of the making of a such a box.

You can find more examples of the products of the process here.

www.peronifirenze.it/

[Willbury]

Ok did some serious internet digging and came across this article with a rough description of how it's done..... Not what I thought it was, there really are seams. Here are the details:

[Willbury]

If it's Italian then I would assume it's made like a Florence leather box. It's not actually seamless. The seams are hidden by burnishing and waxing.

Here's a video of the making of a such a box.

You can find more examples of the products of the process here.

www.peronifirenze.it/

Very cool thanks for the link to the video!

[cem]

I remember someone posting something like that here before it was a heart shaped coin purse and they said it was skived then glued with the seams hidden by burnishing and waxing like Hellfire Jack mentioned.

In Oz for that non stitch coin purse they use kangaroo scrotums.

Clair

[AaronR]

Clever skiving and gluing... Quite slick, but I wonder how they hold up in the long run.

Regarding the earlier comment on bull's scrotums I'm reminded of an old European shoemaker who succeeded in making a truly seamless shoe. No stitches, no glue, but it perfectly fitted the client it was made for. His trick was to use the skin from a calf's leg cut off latitudinally from the body and then shucked off like a snake. It was this he tanned and shaped to make a seamless creation.