Crocodile leather bags and crocodile leather dressing

Recently, the skin of reptiles and reptiles has become very popular, the skin of a python, crocodile skin serves as a very original material for expensive products. For example, I wanted a jacket made of crocodile skin, in my thoughts, it is not so available to me at the moment.

Why have crocodiles become so popular lately, why do they attract us? Maybe with its formidable appearance? No, neither strength, nor his formidable essence, but the skin of a crocodile. It has always been prestigious to have a thing made of crocodile skin. Handbags, wallets, belts, shoes, etc. crocodile leather is fashionable now, but the price for them is quite high. It's not even a matter of catching a crocodile, but of making leather. It turns out that the whole cycle of crocodile leather processing takes three months and this work is not easy - if a mistake is made in the manufacturing process, money is lost. And it is estimated not by the meter, but by the centimeter. Thus, if you want a crocodile leather wallet, then you should prepare a few hundred dollars.

There are farms for breeding crocodiles and making various products from them. It is very expensive to breed them, and in addition, the cost is due to the limited number of import licenses and customs duties.

Photo top and bottom - Hermes crocodile leather bags

What is the difference between the skin of the three types of these reptiles that we talked about at the beginning?
Alligator and crocodile leather is valued more than caimans. In caimans, the skin is much thicker, and its abdominal part, on which there are no protruding scales - osteoderms, can mainly be used.

Crocodile leather, how to distinguish real from fake?
The horny plates of crocodiles go along the body and tail, and in regular rows. In real crocodile skin, under the horny shields on the back in the inner layer of the skin, you can feel the bone plates. Alligators have a less even scale pattern. Sometimes on sale they deliberately confuse crocodile or alligator skin with caiman skin, since the skin of the latter is much lower in quality and cost. Therefore, buyers need to be careful and careful when purchasing leather. And the products, of course, must be bought in well-known stores with a good reputation, an accidental purchase is excluded. But in order to truly learn to distinguish crocodile skin from any other fake, you need to go through a professional path of 5-6 years. Then only you can learn.

Whatever accessory you have made of crocodile skin, it will always retain its dignity and look like all noble things. It will be an exclusive and luxurious item for many, many years to come. Now mainly bags, wallets, purses, belts, boots are made of crocodile skin. When making bags, you cannot use automated production, the whole process is performed manually. This is so as not to disturb the natural pattern of the scales. Depending on which part of the skin the designer chooses, the image of the handbag is dictated from here.

Crocodile leather products can be of all sorts of colors, although previously only three colors were used: black, brown and beige. As mentioned above, if you make a mistake while dressing the leather, then, as they say, everything is gone. Therefore, the masters were wary of using any other dyes. Nowadays leather dressing technologies and modern dyes make it possible to make a whole palette of colors.

Of course, not everyone can afford to have something made of crocodile skin, and therefore prestige is guaranteed to the owner of such exclusive things. And having a luxurious crocodile leather handbag or briefcase is tantamount to success.