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Exotic leathers
Crocodile leather (Croco)
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Our leather comes from the crocodilus porosus or Australian salt-water crocodile. We have chosen the crocodilus porosus because its leather is rated first class in terms of quality, particularly for the fineness and regularity of the scales. |
Galuchat (Shagreen)
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Shagreen is commonly made of the skins of sharks and rays. The word derives from the French chagrin (anxiety, annoyance – a reference to the rasping surface of the leather). Shagreen has an unusually rough and granular surface, and is sometimes used as a fancy leather for book bindings, pocket-books and small cases, as well as its more utilitarian uses in the handles of swords and daggers, where slipperiness is a positive disadvantage. In the 17th and early 18th centuries, however, the term "shagreen" began to be applied to a leather made from sharkskin or the skin of a rayfish (probably the pearl ray, Hypolophus sephen). This form is also termed sharkskin or galuchat. Such skins are naturally covered with round, closely set, calcified papillae called placoid scales, whose size is chiefly dependent on the age and size of the animal. These scales are ground down to give a roughened surface of rounded pale protrusions, between which the dye (again, typically green vegetable dye) shows when the material is coloured from the other side. This latter form of shagreen was first popularised by Jean-Claude Galuchat (d. 1774), a master leatherworker in the court of Louis XV of France. It quickly became a fashion amongst the French aristocracy, and appears to have migrated throughout Europe by the mid-18th century |
Carp leather
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As other fishes, the carp supplies a skin which can be use to the small tanning. Little known by the general public, leathers of fishes, notably the carp, confer a peculiarity quite looked for the up-market tanning. |
Python leather
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The leather of python arises from the python molurus bivittatus. It comes essentially from Asia (Burma, Vietnam, Thaîland). It makes the difference by the irregular spots of light brown colors degraded by the center towards the outside of the spot in a dark brown even black. The tanning of the leather gives fine scales onto a strong and very supple leather. |
Shark leather
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The leather of shark arises from the blue shark Prionace glauca also called " blue skin " because of the blue tint of the top of its body. Once tanned, the leather is very resistant while offering a high-quality flexibility. |
Gold
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This collection is composed of yellow gold and white gold but maybe declined at your convenience in grey or pink gold or platinum. Our gold is 750/1000° (18 carats) guaranteed or plated with 3 microns guaranteed. |
Black metal (or Oxidized metal)
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The black color of metals is obtained by astringent plant (oxide of walnut). The astringent deprive more or less completely the oxygen of metallic oxides, and it is for it that the walnut reduces a part of the dissolutions of gold and silver, and created on their surface a brilliant and metallic crust. The black color produced by the walnut mixed with the iron sulfate is due to the fact that the astringent material deprives some oxygen of the iron, until it brought it to the state of black oxide. So, by this singular process, we propose you creations of an intense and precious Zo-Landing black. |
Silk
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All of our products are sewn with silk thread. Silk thread is chosen for its fineness, shine and flexibility as well as for its high resistance (up to 5 times the resistance of steal for a density that is 6 times less) and its elasticity (twice that of nylon). |