What is vegetable leather?

Still don't know the vegetable leather o vegetable skins? It is a new way of manufacturing various leather goods like backpacks, bags, shoes, among others without using leather from animals. The vegetable leather It is made from discarded fruit pulp and has been achieved thanks to some Dutch students.

Students are able to do great things with fruit residue, since it is a very versatile product. The upholstery of a Porsche with kiwi peely banana peel shoes. It is spelling a boom in the garment industry.

These students saw how every day about 3.500 kg of fruit is thrown away at the market in their city, Rotterdam. Fruit traders had to pay a fee for every kilo they threw away. In this way, they thought about taking advantage of those remains and began to experiment. They finally got a vegetable fabric leather that does not rot and does not attract insects, known as fruitleather.

The introduction of this type of material has meant an advance and innovation in the world of fashion, since we are talking about a Plant tissuewhich reduces its impact on the environment and makes it more sustainable. Although there is still a strong trend towards traditional leather goods but who knows maybe in the future it will change completely.

Types of vegetable leather

El vegetable leather It is unique and each type of material forms its own structure and texture since an infinite number of fruits and fruits can be used. It is the most sustainable alternative to using animal skins, much better than synthetic or natural materials such as cotton.

As to touch and appearance of plant skin It is very similar to the animal so that identical products can be manufactured.

As we have already mentioned, each material being made with a different fruit has its own characteristics, therefore, it is a genre that with the passage of time will increase in different types. The main types of vegetable leather are:

• Vegetable leather made from pineapple fibers: has been created by the company Piñatex and it is one of the materials that most resembles traditional leather. Pineapple is the fruit that has the greatest future to make vegetable skins.
• Vegetable leather made from apple fibers: has been created by the Happy Genie company, is very successful and in his store you can find a multitude of designs made with this material. This vegetable apple skin stands out for its incredible quality and versatility.
• Grape fiber vegetable leather: this type of plant tissue has been created by the Vegea company, since in Italy there is a lot of surplus grapes. The skins and seeds of the grapes are used to obtain a high quality vegetable leather.

These are the best known companies that work with this material, but there are many products made with other fruits such as mushrooms, tree bark, leather from tea leaves, etc.

Advantages of using vegetable leather

The advantages of being able to change the chic and that clothing or automotive companies are involved in this alternative to animal leather are:

• It will reduce food waste and with the remains take advantage of multiple uses such as in this case creation of leather goods in vegetable leather.
• In relation to the above, we reduce the dependence on performing animal leather products.
• When making the material, no chemicals are used, thus helping the environment.
• In the vegetable leather manufacturing process the use of water is dispensed with.

El vegetable leatherIt has great points in its favor but is currently inaccessible to everyone, but the moment it becomes more known it can become the fashion materialby many of our designers and companies.

What is clear that nowadays technological advances are going to improve our quality of life and seek to help the environment. This can be applied to many aspects and as we have seen, fashion and dress is not far behind.

We hope you have enjoyed this article and soon we can be more of us who work with this great material. Did you already know the vegetable skin? Have you seen any of their products?