This luxury vegetable-tanned leather is sourced from young French bull hides and tanned in Europe, it features a beautifully smooth surface with a semi-aniline finish that enhances the leather’s natural character without masking its grain.
What sets this leather apart is its remarkable ability to absorb oils, gradually developing a rich, darkening patina that softens and deepens over time.
With a smooth, buttery hand and a medium, supportive temper, this leather offers an excellent balance of suppleness and structure. It feels soft and luxurious to the touch while retaining enough body for bags, small leather goods and other projects where some structure is required.
Supple with a soft, buttery temper, this leather is incredibly versatile, ideal for everything from structured bags and to small goods. Trusted by artisans worldwide, it’s been used in both traditional saddlery and by leading boutique leathercraft houses.
Thickness: 2.0 mm
Content: 🇫🇷 French Young Bull
Grain: Full Grain
Firmness (Temper): Medium (6/10)
Dye: Fully through-dyed
Finish: Semi-aniline
Tannery: 🇫🇷 Leather sourced from France, tanned in Europe
Tannage: Vegetable-tanned
Properties: Durable, strong natural character, develops a rich patina over time
Burnishing: Not suitable for burnishing, edge painting recommended
Ideal Uses: Bags and small leather goods
Thread Colour Matching:
Meisi Super Fine Meisi Original | |
Meisi H Series | |
Weixin | |
Xiange Twist |
Luxury French Vegetable Tanned Smooth Young Bull Leather Panel - Gold
Purchase Guide
The 30 × 30 cm and 30 × 60 cm panels are primarily cut from the back of the hide, where the leather is in its best condition.
For the 15 × 30 cm panels, we do our best to select the highest quality area available, however, as these may be cut from either the belly or the back, some panels may show stretch marks in certain areas. This size is ideal for testing purposes.
