Cotmarsh Tannery CIC
Vegetable Tanning
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Swindon
Wiltshire
United Kingdom
SN4 7RA
About
Cotmarsh Tannery CIC is a non-profit education tannery with three key objectives:
• Produce high quality fully traceable leather from cattle hides. We will be the only veg tannery in the UK providing a tan and return service to farmers and livestock owners and selling leather direct to makers.
• Add to the fibre education story we are telling our farm. We have textile and fashion students from schools, colleges and universities visit the farm to see the journey of natural fibre from field through to product. This starts with our Organic, Pasture for Life native breed cattle and sheep and takes them through the leather and wool journey showing them around the tannery, natural botanical plant dye garden and award-winning knitwear collection my wife produces from the flock.
• Support the leather industry by helping more micro-tanneries being built. We will be the only education tannery in the country as the Institute of Creative Leather Technology in Northampton is closing next year. Would be tanners will be able to visit the tannery and learn how we set up it. We plan on acting as a regional hub offering other tanners use of the prohibitively expensive machinery that is a barrier to entry allowing more micro-tanneries to be viable.
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