Tuesday 7 May 2019

Do Not Mess With Fish 246,

and you thought fish were fun!



 well not the fish themselves, but their skins when made into leather that could help the environmental costs of land clearance and methane emissions involved in cow leather, 

 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 company gets all its fish from sustainable stocks, via Icelandic, Norwegian and Faroe Island fishing fleets, fish skin is the fruit of several attempts of the Gunnsteinsdóttir family, owners of the Icelandic company Atlantic Leather, it has already processed lots of skins from different types of fish such as salmon, perch, cod, and wolffish, since 1994, 
and a conception about fish skin not being tough is put to rest, Ms Gunnsteinsdóttir says it is a misconception that fish leather must be delicate and easy to tear, "Fish leather's actually nine times stronger than lamb or cow leather of similar thickness," she says, "This is because the fibres in fish skin criss-cross rather than just up and down... it makes it much more durable leather for products that have to be really strong like shoes, belts and bags." next question, do the bags smell fishy? "The fish smell disappears in the early stages, then it smells like any other leather," adds Ms Gunnsteinsdóttir, who is the daughter of the founders, well if the skins are good enough for top European fashion houses Jimmy Choo, Dior and Ferragamo they cannot smell that bad! for the full story have a look here.


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