text: Veg Tanned – Vegetable tanning has been the most ancient technique for leather tanning until the most recent chrome tanning came into the picture. Tanning is a process in which the tannins in living plants, leaves, barks or even fruits are used as agents to bind the collagen protein fibres inside the skin, so the skin doesn’t rot, becomes resistant to water, moisture and bacteria and hence is more durable. Veg tanned leather is highly time consuming, and may take from 2-3 months in the entire tanning process. While chrome tanning using chromium sulphite as the tanning agent has unnaturally sped up the process tanning leather in just one single day, veg tanned leather is way more durable than chrome tanned leather. Also, if you do not want all those chrome-blue wastes getting drained into the fresh water sources from these leather industries, you may certainly get yourselves the best of veg tanned boots.