Lo Stivale was founded as a tannery specialized in vegetable tanning, with a tradition passed down from father to son up to the present day. The tannery is distinguished by its leather fatliquoring method, which is still carried out as it was 40 years ago: in drums, using “tallow” based on animal fats and fish oils. The renowned “vacchetta” leather is still produced — an ideal leather for footwear — whose fatliquoring, made with “lustro” — a blend of oils, gelatins, and animal waxes — is applied by hand, thus preserving a valuable artisanal process.
While adopting modern technologies required by today’s era, Lo Stivale remains faithful to traditional machinery and tools that, to the most experienced connoisseurs in the sector, evoke the early years of the tanning industry boom, when manual labor and rudimentary tools were the true strength of production.
The shoulders, butts, and backs produced by Conceria Lo Stivale are used in the production of footwear, bags, belts, small leather goods, bookbinding, and home furnishings, with thicknesses ranging from 1 mm to 4 mm.
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