Detroit, Michigan, USA.
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Next week we'll be headed back to Bologna to attend Lineapelle. We go over every October to show what we've been working on over the past year. We'll be in Hall 22, at our agents booth (Brizzi Agenzie).
In the past we've been able to catch up with customers and friends alike. This year, we will sadly miss seeing our friend, the artisan, Stefano Bemer, who passed away earlier this year.
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Inside the tannery.
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Back in October, before we visited Lineapelle, we were able to make a quick stopover in Florence. We walked. A lot. For at least part of the day, we actually knew where we were going, and that was to visit the shops owned and operated by Stefano Bemer.
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One of the challenges for us as tanners is to keep coming up with "new" leathers. When we're developing a leather it is usually because there is a customer that is asking for something specific. Typically, the resulting leather ends up being a variation of an existing leather that has been designed and tanned to meet certain aesthetic and performance characteristics. These demands change all the time and range widely - a leather needs to change to be waterproof, cementable, breathable, stronger, burnishable, softer, firmer, shinier, duller - the list goes on and the combinations are endless.
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