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 ...

Chemicals and materials are omnipresent in contemporary life, therefore major changes will be required for chemical makers to function in a changing geopolitical environment on a global scale, either ...

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 ...

Leather production can have a negative impact on the natural environment, especially in areas where land is deforested to rear cattle and along rivers where water is polluted during the tanning ...