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Shironameshi (Shin-Toshi Tannery)

Himeji, Hyogo · Japan

Chemical-free white-tanned leather

What you’ll find

What Shironameshi (Shin-Toshi Tannery) is known for

Shironameshi is Himeji's white-tanned leather, cured with only salt and rapeseed oil in a method more than a thousand years old and nearly lost until tanner Matomo Nitta revived it at his Shin-Toshi tannery from 2000. The site presents the pale, chemical-free hides and the shoes, bags and garments that designers now build from them.