Italian tannery Macchi & Salvadori focuses on veg-tanned leather.
Leather handcrafting enthusiasts love vegetable tanned leather. When come to dress shoes, vegetable tanned leather is generally used as middle sole, outsole and welt.
Tannery Macchi & Salvadori was founded in 1962. Even though the leather tanning industry has run into chrome tanning, this company sticks to vegetable tanning, and its products also focus on shoe materials.
This is the half midsole. If you look in most welted shoes, you can see this beige vegetable tanned leather in the forefoot.
This may be something that more people know and talk about, because there is a relatively more expensive and well-known brand, JR Sole, and then there is the most expensive outsole of J.F.Baker in Britain, which claims to have a longer manufacturing cycle and more wear resistance.
The way to distinguish J.F.Baker from others is by the smell. That is brought by the tanning liquid.
Most of the heels on the market are preformed, that is, rubber and leather are already matched. This shape is rare.
This shape is extremely common.
And this is the classic among the classics.
This sawtooth shape is because the place along the strip, such as the toe and heel, should be enclosed, and this sawtooth leaves room for bending inward.
Because storm welt needs to be up-folded.
Then there is this fudged welt, which saves the shoe factory time.
Summary
I like this long-term focused company very much, because it is obviously a sunset industry, but it can be deeply cultivated.
At the same time, these products also let us who like shoes know more.