UK goatskin tannery prepares to launch funding campaign

26/04/2017
Billy Tannery, a UK-based tannery that will specialise in goat hides, has launched its website in preparation for a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter that will allow it to sell its first products. 

Proposals for the tannery, which is based in Leicestershire, received approval from the local council in November 2016. A few months earlier, Leatherbiz.com reported that The Billy Tannery brand was aiming to transform a “largely redundant” site in the village of Arnesby into a micro-tannery, which will produce no more than 150kg of crust leather per week.

The first Billy Tannery products that will be made available will reportedly include notebooks, a card holder, a briefcase and a backpack.