WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY - WAYDT (PICS)
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@Alex @Chap and I went to visit Kolesch, the tannery that makes the deerskin for the Big Bucks. The tannery has been in the same premises since 1699 and is still owned by the same family. We were shown around by the 7th and 8th generations....Many of the processes were positively medieval, and health and safety was not high on the list of priorities. I walked around in a sort of utterly amazed daze.......
Here are a few pics, I did not take many and photos really do not do the sensory onslaught justice...Alex will post more later, but he is driving atm....
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Possibly, but we understand a lot more about the operation and constraints they run under. Each hide takes a year to turn from a raw skin into the finished product and "painting" the hides is incredibly labour-intensive. Plus they do all sorts of other stuff for local hunters, we saw a pallet load of beavers waiting to be tanned, a guy popped in last night with a fox he had just shot and asked how much it was to skin and tan it, and another hunter turned up with a load of rabbits this morning. The family are easily distracted
The good news is that the natural obviously does need to be "painted", so we believe we will be able to get deliveries of that faster. We will test that theory very soon.....
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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#positivelymedieval
#7thand8thgenerations
#1699That's National Geographic level --- Germany keeping it real
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OOH, i can smell it from here....
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The lust for the big buck has only increased! And wouldn't you know it, a small restock happened to hit yesterday.
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Kolesch tannery is something else.
Can remember calling them to order some samples for Iron Heart UK.
It was such a lovely chat about their process and Mr. Kolesch could even remember the delivery of hides for the first jacket Haraki ordered years earlier.I am in for a natural hide CPO prototype or even an Untucked version.
Let me know
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@Aetas said in WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY (PICS):
the first jacket Haraki ordered
Funny, they could not remember that last night
I bought those hides and gave H the prototype as a present.....
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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@Giles said in WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY (PICS):
Funny, they could not remember that last night
For real. I was surprised Mr. Kolesch sen. could remember, because it was only hide for one jacket that was send to Scotland. But at this time there have been several attempts to get some more hides for IH. Perhaps he gentle mirrored my narrative
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