At PlannerCon Europe 2017 Gillio Firenze announced the release of products in un-dyed leather.
On Monday 6 November, they released a range of products in un-dyed leather including:
- Pocket Mia Cara (ref. 223/08)
- Medium Mia Cara (ref. 224/08)
- A5 Mia Cara (ref. 238/08)
- Medium Compagna (ref. 224/02)
- A6 Appunto (ref. 280/02)
- A5 Appunto (ref. 281/02)
The Appunto is their Hobonichi cover.
I expect that they will be releasing other products in un-dyed leather in the future.
Back in December 2016 I was sent a Gillio Giramondo in un-dyed leather to test out. Other prototypes had been sent to other admins on the Gillio Facebook group to test over a period of months.
The other people did fairly normal usage tests by using the products every day. I wanted to look to see what would happen if a customer applied any leather care products to the un-dyed leather, what would happen to it, what would it look like etc etc. Gillio were naturally interested in what customers might experience and so they would be prepared for any bad experiences.
Un-dyed leather is literally untreated, it is the natural hide so it is very susceptible to absorbing the oils from your hands, to sunlight, as well as being contaminated by anything it is left close to or it absorbs from our natural environment.
So here is a series of photos of the Giramondo that I took and what had happened to it at each stage of the tests.
So these first photos were taken on the 23 December the day I received it.
Once Christmas and the New Year was out of the way I decided to give it some leather care treatment using this product. I’ve used this on other leather organisers before now to enhance their appearance.
On 4 January 2017 straight after spraying the Giramondo looked like this:
As you can see this has changed its appearance quite drastically, and you can be forgiven for thinking ‘what has he done!’
The Giramondo was then left over night to air and stabilise again. About 12 hours later this is what it looked like:
It is a bit more uniform now in colour and not quite so dramatic in what it looks like.
Behind the secretarial flap once opened shows the contrast, no leather care was applied behind there, or in to the inside of the left hand slip pocket.
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So I hope you are having a good week.