In 1991, when Scott Starbuck opened City Soles in Chicago, most of the shoes his customers wanted were made with leather ... in things like fertilizer, gelatin, medicines and textiles. Hides ...

But currently, he said, the chemical creates a better product. Humans have been tanning hides to make leather since prehistoric times, using them for clothing and shelter. Byproducts of the cattle ...

he figured he might be able to make some money out of this. Founded just a year later, Howl and Hide began selling handcrafted leather goods. Being self-taught, things weren't easy at first.

In this article, I’ll continue my series on useful items to make with home-tanned leather (see “How to Tan a Deer Hide,” “How to Make Your Own Moccasins,” and “Craft Your Own Coonskin ...

Before the advent of chemical tanning of hides to make leather, animal skins were subjected to all kinds of strange concoctions to degrease and soften them. Urine, wood ashes, tree bark acid, and even ...

It is the fall hunting-season rush for this 103-year-old niche leather company. Send your deer or elk hide to Uber Glove and Tanning, and Rinerson’s employees will tan it and make it into a ...

Audi has upped the leather-quality ante and will now only make leather interiors from bull hides. It’s not sexism: bull hides are apparently larger and of a higher quality than those of cows.