Leather is beautiful and luxurious and natural and one of the great materials of the world. However, it’s absolutely gross to make. Here’s the process of tanning raw hide into high quality leather.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Some leather products manufacturers in capital Kabul complain about their dwindling sales and say there are no factories to produce leather from animal skin. Leather production is a ...

ON A RECENT VACATION in Morocco, my husband and I watched one of the oldest chemical processes in action: the conversion of animal hides into leather by a process that was already well-developed by ...

Products made from fish skin. In the 2006/7 budget, the government slapped a 20 per cent duty on exports of raw skins and hides. /Joseph Kanyi The leather tanning industry is headed for a boost as the ...