[PID] Cordovan Key Case 25267

The leather used for the front of the main body is cordovan, which is mainly raw hides from France, Spain, and Poland, tanned in Japan with vegetable tannin (plant astringent) and dyed. The dye finish is a finish using only dyes, which gives the leather a transparent surface, and the silver surface pattern, which symbolizes the leather's character, is noticeable, resulting in a beautiful, high quality leather finish. It is tanned and surface-treated by one of only a few tanneries in Japan that specialize in cordovan. The tanning and surfacing processes are carried out by different craftsmen in order to produce a superior cordovan finish. Unlike most leathers, which have intertwined collagen fibers running horizontally, cordovan has collagen fibers arranged in an orderly vertical line. The surface structure of the cordovan layer is the cross section of these collagen fibers. The fine-grained fibers are exposed in an orderly arrangement, resulting in a very smooth and moist texture. The