Know the hide
beforeyou cut

Portrait photo by Jake Nackos on Unsplash Ingrid Halvorsen Cutting room lead

Batch 4471 landed two shades darker than the swatch we signed off on, and the temper is stiffer across the butt.

Portrait photo by Korede Adenola on Pexels Tomás Ferreiro Tannery liaison

Drum times ran long on the oak-bark run, so the grain came back tighter than the November lot did.

Portrait photo by Thanh Xuan Nguyen Ly on Pexels Nadia Oyelaran Materials sourcing

We want a second bark supplier lined up and audited well before the autumn order drops on us.

Portrait photo by Ben Khatry on Pexels Petter Lindqvist Quality control

Split thickness has drifted 0.3 mm across the last three deliveries and nobody flagged it upstream.