The workshop of the ancient artisanworkshop 'Maste' is located in the beautiful town of Sestri Levante less than
50 kilometres from Genoa and produces leather and hide articles, items that
evoke the elegance of travellers at the turn of the century, recall country
style, or are in line with the latest fashion trends. A very important piece of information is the
type of leather used. This is Genuine Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather, an
Italian excellence that is the heritage of Tuscan craftsmanship, which has
remained unchanged over the centuries and consists of the use of strictly
natural products to transform raw hide into leather.
For this reason, leather and hide do
not cause allergies. The processing begins with the raw hide being worked to
prepare it to absorb tanning substances, the most important of which is tannin,
a natural product extracted from the bark of certain trees such as the
chestnut. In large wooden drums, the hide takes forty days to transform into a
natural leather with characteristics of softness, resistance, perfume, colour
and appearance that are still unmatched by products derived from industrial
processing. A not secondary aspect is that the objects produced by Maste last
over time, gradually acquiring an inimitable charm that can only derive from
the type of tanning.