Family run tannery praises oak bark method
12/08/2013
J & FJ Baker & Co has been owned by Andrew Par's family for 150 years and supplies to high-end shoe manufacturers and saddlers.
The oak bark is stripped from trees during spring, dried and kept for two or three years.
“It produces a very strong, hardwearing but lightweight leather,” he told This is Cornwall, but admitted: "The reason we're still using it is that it's possible we got left behind.”
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