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S&V African Leather Magazine Vol18 No10 October 2024

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IN THIS ISSUE:

03 Sam Setter’s ‘Pills’
- A new quip from Sam Setter in each issue.

03 Upfront
- Rwanda: Realism needed for a country with wonderful hides and skins.
- Hanni family prepares to celebrate 300 years of tanning.
- Fusion Leather World achieves LWG silver rating.

06 An Eclectic View
- Traceability in Africa: Unusually, Africa has led the way in leather traceability, writes correspondent H. Procter, but the devil is in the detail.

09 Other Materials
- Leather friends? Perhaps not quite ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’, but ‘natural’ materials have more in common with each other than with the arch enemy, plastics, writes Karl Flowers.

11 Leather, Its Image & Its Place In The World
- Keeping leather relevant for the future involves both holding on to its heritage and incorporating modern values, writes the Sustainable Leather Foundation’s Deborah Taylor. - Only Natural: Inaugural competition, funded by the Leather & Hide Council of America and others, challenges fast fashion.

15 Weights & Measures
- Compiled by the ISTT.



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