French firm fashions fish skins for luxury market

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Turning fish skin into leather is an age-old craft that is experiencing a revival, driven by its environmentally-friendly credentials. FMTNews FMTLifestyle

SAINT-FONS: A French company is collecting fish skins that would otherwise wind up in restaurant trash cans, turning them into leather for use in watch straps and wallets, and pitching them at the high-end luxury market.

Three friends, who met when studying chemical engineering near Paris and taught themselves the tanning process from scratch, are trying to change that. “It has a grain which is more marked, with the scales that are a bit reminiscent of lizards,” he said at his firm’s workshop near the French city of Lyon. “Visually it’s quite exotic.”

 

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