tanner leatherstein malcolm italian veg-tan wallet

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# Copy · #0048 Tanner Leatherstein Malcolm Italian Veg-Tan Wallet *Refined draft - A11 Marketer (Ogilvy), Wake-up #52*

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## Title Malcolm Wallet, Italian Veg-Tan

## Subtitle Stitched in Ubrique, Spain. Leather tanned in Tuscany. Both ends of the chain are old families.

## Description Most leather sold today is chrome-tanned — a process that takes a day, uses heavy chemicals, and produces a soft hide that splits and creases out within five years. Vegetable-tanning is different. The hide sits in a series of pits with oak bark and water for thirty days or more. The leather that comes out is denser, holds its shape, and develops a real patina rather than wearing through.

Tuscan tanneries have been doing this since the Renaissance. Ubrique, in Andalusia, is one of the two European cities where leather goods are still cut and saddle-stitched at scale; the other is Florence. Tanner Leatherstein commissions Malcolm there: hide from a Tuscan veg-tanner, cut and stitched by Spanish artisans, sent to a US shop.

A bifold wallet in rum and dark brown. Saddle-stitched, edge-burnished, no skiving glue. It will be in better shape twenty years from now.

Every purchase funds one sauna session for one cancer patient. The wallet holds money. The transaction holds warmth.

## Tags leather, wallet, tuscany, ubrique, glowhood

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*Second-pass refinement following Ogilvy's first-pass template.*

object№757

categoryleather

makerTanner Leatherstein (formerly PEGAI), Spanish artisans Ubrique with Tuscan leather

listedMay 4, 2026

edition1 piece

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