Author: fraz sabir

Is Leather a By-Product of the Meat Industry?

Everyday more people are considering where their clothes come from, and at what cost. When wearing animal materials like cow leather or sheepskin, these questions relate to the cost of someone’s life. Materials like fur are much more widely criticized than leather and sheepskin, despite them all being the same thing: animal skins. One of […]

Challenges and Opportunities in the Leather Products Industry

The leather-based industry especially leather products industry (footwear, garment, leather goods) is highly fashion oriented.  Moreover, articles made of (genuine or simulated) leather are complementing clothing. Leather products (shoes, garment, leather goods) is important export earner for many developing countries. In many countries leather products export ranks within the first three places in the total […]

Who Wears Leather Jackets?

Although the leather jacket still retains strong symbolic associations it has, over the last hundred years, become universalised.  Motorcyclists still love their leather jackets, but so do models, film stars, pregnant mums and retired teachers.  Leather jackets, in all their multitudinous variety, are worn all around the world by all kinds of people. Are Leather […]

The history of leather shoes

Footwear manufacturing has come a long way over thousands of years, here’s a quick look at how it developed The oldest known leather shoe was excavated by archaeologists in an Armenian cave in 2010. Carbon dated at 5,500 years old it is made from one piece of cowhide with a grass lining. From those simple […]