Morocco leather

Morocco leather (also morocco leather or Morocco ) is a named after the Moroccan city of Safi very fine and soft leather.

Production

Morocco is produced by the process of tannery from the fur of goats and usually tanned with sumac. It is artificially grained and one-sided colored, but not painted.

Spurious morocco leather is made from the split skin of sheep. The fabrication is considered Arab invention. In 1749, the first European Saffianfabrik was built in Alsace and dates from 1797 - the founding of the tannery to Choisy in Paris - the rise of French Saffiangerberei that found at the beginning of the 19th century in Germany entrance. Long morocco was pre-produced in the Orient ( as so-called Meschinleder ), only tanned and dried, and then went to the post to Europe, where it was stained, polished and starched. For staining is often turned to coal tar dyes. In Germany, the dyeing and finishing of the Indian Saffians was operated particularly in Kirn.

Concerning the nature of the leather writes that in 1835 published Women Conversations Lexicon, whether originating from Morocco and Turkey morocco leather " [ ... ] on one side brushwood, gerispelt, shiny, as if covered with lacquer, on the other, although rough, but very fine and soft, dry and never greasy [ ... ] ".

Use

Saffianleder was especially processed for fine footwear, portfolio items and bookbinders goods.

Saffianstiefel

The term " Saffianstiefel " comes from the novel by Denis Diderot, La Religieuse (1750 ) and called there spruced persons who were wearing boots from morocco and could be described by today's standards as a gigolo.