Leather

More Than Just A Business, Leather Is A Passion. As A Family-run Business Since Its Foundation, The Company Has Grow In Tradition And Know-how Over The Years.

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Our story begins 5 Generations Ago, in 1904 a family founded company that relies on passion, in 1939, after gaining extensive experience working in the tanning industry, we established your beloved LAPERLA, we specialize in Cow, Goat and Sheep skins.

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"wetBlue" "Skin"

"Pickled" "Skin"

"Crust" "SKin"

Leather Materials

Pickled Leather

The Process of producing pickled leather Bating and Pickling Bating and pickling make the fibres of the hide more receptive to tanning. Bating Hides are treated with enzymes, similar to those found in the digestive system, to break down proteins. As a result the hides become softer. The duration of the bating process depends largely […]

Leather Quality

Leather Grades

Here At Laperla we only believe at the best Leather is a material loved by many for its flexibility and durability. It is made from tanning animal skins or hides and many different animals are used to make leather. Leather has four basic grains or qualities; those are full-grain leather, top-grain leather, genuine leather, and […]

Leather Design

Leather Production

Leather is not only a mere natural raw material but for us it is pure passion. Very special people do very special work and provide a quality product which at contemporary functionality holds all positive properties of a naturally grown raw material. Laperla staff takes on the challenging leather production day in, day out. Passion […]

Leather Quality

Laperla Quality

Italy and specially Laperla has a unique tradition and knowledge of producing high quality leather, and to guarantee the highest possible quality of our products, we exclusively use leather from leading Italian tanneries serving global fashion brands. Transforming raw hides into a material that will resist throughout time is a process of 30 – 40 […]

Leather Materials

Wet Blue Leather

Wet Blue refers to moist chrome-tanned leatherc. In this phase, the leather is tanned, but neither dried, dyed nor finished. The bluish colouring is produced by the chrome tanning agent (Chromium (III) oxide), which is blue and is contained in the leather after tanning. Nowadays leather is dyed through in multiple colours but the dyes have no opacity. In the case of bright leathers, […]

Leather Materials

Crust Leather

Crust leather is the term applied to leather, which is dried after tanning but has not yet been dyed. In the case of chrome-tanned leather, this is known as “chrome crust” and, for vegetable-tanned leather, as “vegetable crust”. Crust leather is rarely processed as it is. Usually, the leather is dyed and finished before processing. […]