HOW IT ALL BEGAN

The renewable material rhubarb or rather rhubarb roots naturally contain ingredients called Tannins, which are suitable for tanning leather. In order to obtain the tannins, they need to be efficiently extracted from the roots. As part of our research and development and in addition to the identification of the best rhubarb plants (genotypes) and the optimization of cultivation we developed an industrially applicable extraction method suited to produce an efficient tanning extract in large quantities.

Even with growing rhubarb leather production the acreage required are marginal and there is no competition with common food crops. 

The key question was whether a premium leather quality can be achieved with the new rhubar tanning. Today we can answer this question with „yes“. rhabarberleder convinces through a very special feel. The handle is soft, the smell extraordinary pleasant and you can see very well that the gentle tanning process and the rhubarb ingredients perfectly preserve the unique structure of each skin. rhabarberleder are unique items of a special quality that are made to last.The skins are dried very gently, so that hardly any Maßgewinn is achieved. But therefore the leather is perfectly „in shape“ even after years. In addition to the haptic qualities rhabarberleder also meet the market and customer requirements in terms of technical and and health-related parameters. The uncoated skins are breathable and due to the conscious forgoing of environmentally harmful heavy metal and chromium compounds low in pollutants and very kind to the skin. So even babies / toddlers and especially chrome allergy sufferers can easily use rhubarb leather and products made therefrom.