After working with this material for over 40 years, Tusting and Burnett are now proud to be the sole worldwide importer and supplier of this beautiful and rare raw material.

A unique and rare leather, our Vegetable Tanned Farm Reared African Goats are a truly special raw material.
These Vegetable tanned goatskins have a beautiful irregular grain pattern that is unique to this raw material, and all of our many different natural, aniline finishes are developed to enhance the natural beauty of each and every skin. Using aniline dyes and natural oils and waxes we are able to highlight the grain character and natural markings of each skin to showcase the natural beauty. Our goal is not to create perfectly uniform, pigmented leathers, but instead, beautiful, natural looking leathers. Many of our leathers are developed with an
intentional vintage feel to them that only gets better with time. Each natural marking and blemish adds to the special character of each skin and to the rich, natural patina of the finished article. With our Heritage finishes, we aim to showcase the natural markings and unique irregular grain pattern to create one of a kind leathers that you will not find anywhere else in the world.

The raw tanning process of these Goat skins is also highly unique, and is carried out in Africa using the Begaruwa seeds from the native Acacia Nilotica Trees. The skins are all tanned by hand in clay pots and are then all hand twisted to create the unique grain pattern that you see in the finished article. The animal is used in its entirety by the tribe and the sale of the skins then supports the entire local community and money is also used to help with local schools and other local improvement initiatives.

As our signature raw material, we have developed many different finishes on this unique raw material. The most famous being our trademarked Mad Dog® finish. Our signature recipe of natural oils and waxes used in this finish was created on these African Goats more than 40 years ago and the same recipe is still used on this raw material to this day. The Mad Dog® range itself includes over 50 different colourways and has also inspired many more variations to become a whole range in itself. As well as this we also finish the skins out in more classic aniline hand tipped finishes perfect for bookbinding, leather goods and footwear. beautifully. The finished leather can then be either polished, burnished, distressed, washed or hand stained tocreate a huge variety of different looks.