Best Raw Materials of Leather from Garut
Best Raw Materials of Leather from Garut. Garut is a city well-known leather processing in Indonesia, where quality can be paired with imported leather products. It is constituted by leather craftsmen in Garut utilize the resources or raw materials already available in the city well, not too difficult to find or obtain raw materials because of the large sheep farm. So that the underlying leather craftsmen in Garut using native resources of their city, because in addition to easily get the quality of the sheep leather is also quite good. Sheep in the city of Garut also different from the sheep that exist in other areas of Indonesia, which is typical Garut sheep is a mixture of three types of lamb are local lamb, sheep species 'capstaad' that comes from South Africa and sheep species 'merino' of Australia. The first are married with local lamb is a sheep species 'capstaad' then after that crossbreed result of cross breeding was mated with the type of sheep 'merino'.
Indonesian people, especially people from West Java typical sheep arrowroot usually call it "Domba Garut" or “Garut Sheep” because of its species come from arrowroot. Although not all the raw materials using sheepskin, some are using cowhide or buffalo leather. But the craftsmen and buyers prefer products made from sheepskin because of perceived higher quality than other leather.
There leather craftsman creative with genuine leather of sheep, a wide range of processed products from their skin produce such as leather bags, leather shoes, leather jackets, leather wallets, belts and other leather processing even they also become food ie skin crackers. So do not be surprised if the city of Garut labeled as one of the city's best producer of leather processed in Indonesia. Preparations of the skin is not only sold in Indonesia, but has penetrated into overseas markets, many exporters who sell products processed leather to overseas consumers. It is also beneficial for the country because it can increase or enhance the value of exports that would increase per capita income. The leather processed products has enthusiasts of all ages and also has a sale price that varies depending on the material.