Most leather goods you encounter today are made with chrome-tanned leather. It is soft, consistent, and cheap to produce. The tanning process takes hours and the result is a material that feels good in the store and looks fine for the first year or two.Vegetable-tanned leather takes weeks. It costs more. It requires more skill to work with. And it produces something fundamentally different — leather that behaves more like a living material than a manufactured one.Here is why that difference is worth understanding before you buy anything you plan to carry every day.What Vegetable Tanning Actually IsTanning is the...