The Chèvre Chagrin we offer on our store is 100% vegetable-tanned, which makes it easy to burnish and safe to use for applications where the leather touches fur or skin (such as a watch strap).
An iconic bag made with chèvre Chèvre Chagrin Some professional bag-makers and other high-end designers deliberately seek out hides with nuances like these, but it’s also possible to produce a uniform texture throughout the piece. One panel can have several of these details, making each hide visually dynamic and unique. For example, as you get closer to the top of the hide, you can see how the grain pattern gets tighter and closer together. You can more easily see grain pattern changes like the spine, the shoulder, and the overall grain changing as you move from the body to the legs. The hides are small, and so is the grain. details of a chèvre hide Chèvre Hides: Overall Look and FeelĬhèvre has a distinctive look that is different from cow leather. When you have both hides in your hands, the difference is immediately evident. There are similar leathers available in the US (labeled simply as goat leather), but they typically aren’t consistently quite as nice. We carry two types of Chèvre, and they come from one of the finest tanneries in France. In a similar way to cow and horse hides, different kinds of Chèvre leather have varying degrees of quality. Many high-end handbags, as well as beloved home projects, use chèvre. It is a very distinctive hide that stands out when you see it. Chèvre leather is one of my favorite kinds of leather because it is so easy to use, and it looks great.
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