Introduction Traced Good
TRACED GOOD tells the story of an irrisistible passion for genuine
products made of pure and eco-tanned materials Leather and Cashmir,
combined with design and development of accessories manufactured
traditionally, hand-made and on a Fair Trade base.
TRACED GOOD found its production area in the first place in Nepal -
Kathmandu. Far away, high in the Himalaya, the FTG Nepal and factory took
me to a village with a 4X4 and the last part we hiked. It took us 7 hours
to come there, and I was amazed by founding the most pure Eco-leather you
can think of! We’ve made already an improvement, by talking to the Head of
the village – describing the full process in detail and founding out the
newest possibilities of vegetable tanning that the Village realize.
Together with the Leather Village and Fair Trade Group Nepal I now work on
designs for TRACED GOOD. Read more and see movies and pictures at
Currently, I am also very busy working on bags with a new Leather factory
in Chennai with veg tanned leather production methods for designs of
TRACED GOOD bags and scarfs… I am very excited by planning my next visit
to Chennai to see and describe the situation of
the veg tanning process and sources of leather in this area myself ..
With accessiation Clean + Unique (www.cleanunique.org) I work on an
ongoing base on Technical Plans and describing processes and improvement
of the factories, in order to show transparency and set goals to realize
improvement of labour conditions in the long term. I am very glad that
this association exists to share ideas with other designers and to make it
possible for designers to commit to Codes of labour of Fair Wear and
realize small projects locally.
The mission of TRACED GOOD is enabling and embracing a better
understanding of improvement of clean sources and tanning processes of
leather and cashmir origins towards the end-consumer by selling a number
of pure, authentic and fair Men and Women accessories. This will be
realized by manufacturing and selling accessories Fair Trade and with a
well traced production and tanning process.
The vegetable tanned leather used for some accessories of TRACED GOOD is
purely sourced in the Bagmati-Zone of Central Nepal and no chemical
tanning and less waste water is used. The cashmere is sourced in Mongolia
and Nepal and is spun handmade – it takes 4 days to manufacture 1
blanket-scarf.
Currently, I am also very busy working on bags with a new Leather factory
in Chennai with veg tanned leather production methods for designs of
TRACED GOOD bags and scarfs… I am very excited by planning my next visit
to Chennai to see and describe the situation of
the veg tanning process and sources of leather in this area myself ..
With accessiation Clean + Unique (www.cleanunique.org) I work on an
ongoing base on Technical Plans and describing processes and improvement
of the factories, in order to show transparency and set goals to realize
improvement of labour conditions in the long term. I am very glad that
this association exists to share ideas with other designers and to make it
possible for designers to commit to Codes of labour of Fair Wear and
realize small projects locally.
The mission of TRACED GOOD is enabling and embracing a better
understanding of improvement of clean sources and tanning processes of
leather and cashmir origins towards the end-consumer by selling a number
of pure, authentic and fair Men and Women accessories. This will be
realized by manufacturing and selling accessories Fair Trade and with a
well traced production and tanning process.
The vegetable tanned leather used for some accessories of TRACED GOOD is
purely sourced in the Bagmati-Zone of Central Nepal and no chemical
tanning and less waste water is used. The cashmere is sourced in Mongolia
and Nepal and is spun handmade – it takes 4 days to manufacture 1
blanket-scarf.
