Unlike the soft leather you are used to seeingon luxury leather goods such as high-endpurses, vegetable tanned leathers are rustic, thick and very durable. For instance, consider this leather to be the type you would find in equestrian saddlesand antique leather goods. Unlikechrome tanned leathers which have toxic properties,vegetable tannedproducts have less of an impact on our environment, eliminatingmuchof the pollution caused bymoderntanning methods. Every vegetable tanned leather produced is unique in its own way.