Wear and tear is an inevitable process that occurs to most modern day consumables. When this happens to natural materials it can, for a time ta least, add character. However, over time wear can become terminal.
Compoleather looks to readdress the balance between leather products in their fresh and attractive state and the fatigued and worn out end condition prior to disposal.
As apposed to simply producing new material, a costly process in terms of the lives of the animals from which the hides are taken as well as the production process itself, Julie van den Boorn instead recycles old leather to create a new material all together.
The used leather is shredded, mixed with hot water and then pressed into moulds. Once dried the pulped leather, now fused together without any binding agent, creates a completely natural leather with many of the original characteristics including that distinct smell.
