Olav Thon, a billionaire entrepreneur recognizable for his bright red cap who went from selling leather and fox hides in his ...

Encouraged by improvements to animal welfare and more sustainable tanning methods, creatives are rediscovering this traditional material ...

Clinging to survival with his wife Margaret and their seven children, Breen described the harsh winter weather, the leather hides they resorted to eating, and the deaths of their traveling companions.

The substances, known as tannins, will naturally bind to the collagen proteins in a hide, turning it into leather as we know it. Just as they do for trees, the tannins protect hides being turned ...

Steinunn Gunnsteinsdóttir admits that it took her family more than a few attempts to be able to make leather from fish skins. "The first 200 times we just made smelly fish soups," she says.