Me in Fish Leather Shop in Sauðarkrókur
Posted by Mindaugas A. on 2025-11-30
It can be difficult to be small craftsman, but it's incredible feeling to be known by what I create. I feel so lucky to show you my work!
This is a sustainable product. Fish-leather is a by-product of the fishing industry in Iceland, produced by up-cycling RAW material that would not be used otherwise and using renewable hydro and geothermal energy.
The lining and bits is from leather off-cuts from my studio. I don't send anything to waste.
Fish leather has a natural cross-fiber structure, unlike cattle leather for instance, in which the fibres only run in one direction. This natural cross-fibre pattern makes fish leather stronger then "ordinary" leathers, when compared with the same thickness of leather.
Fish-leather ages beautifully!