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SAINT-FONS (France), Sept 18 — 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. Turning fish skin into leather is an age-old craft. It is...

A bow tie made with salmon leather is displayed at Ictyos’ showroom in its workshop in Saint-Fons, near Lyon, France, September 17, 2020. — Reuters pic

Turning fish skin into leather is an age-old craft. It is experiencing a revival — driven by its environmentally-friendly credentials — but has yet to break into the rarefied end of the fashion industry. “Salmon skin has a suppleness, and a finesse, it’s less than half a millimetre thick, but with a resistance which is nearly equivalent to cow leather,” said Benjamin Malatrait, one of the three friends, who co-founded a company called Ictyos.

“It has a grain which is more marked, with the scales that are a bit reminiscent of lizard,” he said at his firm’s workshop near the French city of Lyon. “Visually its quite exotic.”

 

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