Let your creativity run wild with easy-to-handle leather straps!

Create what you want from our leather straps: horse harnesswatch straps, dog leashes and collars, handbag straps, etc.

Leather craftsmen looking for vegetable tanned leather straps natural or dyed ? Radermecker Tannery offers leather straps made from Pykara saddle leather and Niagara saddle leather.

What are the different dimensions of leather straps?

Leather straps vegetable tanned are cut either in the shoulder Pykara dyed or naturalor in the shoulder Niagara dyed or naturalNiagara half-backs. The shoulder straps are available:
  • Pykara shoulder strap natural or tinted in sizes 3x120cm, 4x120cm, 3x135cm and 4x135cm
  • Niagara shoulder strap natural or tinted in sizes 3x120, 4x120cm, 4x140cm and 4x140cm
  • Niagara half-back strap natural or tinted in sizes 180x3cm, 180x4cm, 220x3cm and 220x4cm

Stretched leather strips are cut from either thirds of butt stretched Boyoma in black and chocolate aniline or in one-third thirds of butt stretched Niagara.  Stretched Boyoma leather straps and Niagara stretched leather straps are available in 4 sizes:

  • Width 2.5cm x Length 130cm
  • Width 2.8cm x Length 130cm
  • Width 2.5cm x Length 150cm
  • Width 2.8cm x Length 150cm
What is the tanning of the leather straps?
Shoulder and half-back leather straps are vegetable-tanned, making them non-allergenic. Stretch leather straps are either vegetable-tanned with Stretch Niagara or double-tanned with Stretch Boyoma. Stretched leather straps are mainly used for parts requiring high tensile strength and tear resistance, such as stirrups and grith straps for horse saddles. Vegetable tannins provide firmness and high resistance to elongation.

What are the different finishes of leather straps?

Leather straps from shoulder are available in naturalin black, chocolate, havana, cognac and victoria aniline finish, and black, chocolate, havana and cognac pigmented finish.
Stretched leather straps are available in black and chocolate aniline finishes.

Pykara leather strap and Niagara leather strap, which one to choose?

The natural Pykara leather strap is perfectly suited to the work of embossingUnlike the Niagara leather strap. The Pykara dyed leather strap has a pigmented finish that ensures good protection of the leather against light, rubbing and stains. It is used for leather goods. The Niagara dyed leather strap has an aniline finish which preserves the natural appearance of the leather. Marking and moulding work can be carried out on Pykara leather strap and Niagara leather strap.

What leather items can be made with leather straps?

  • Leather straps from shoulder are used in the manufacture of leather goods such as belts, bag handles, straps, collars and leashes, leather wardrobe or dressing room handles, key rings, etc.
  • Niagara leather straps are also used, for example, in the manufacture of harnessing such as halters, snaffles, harnesses, bridle reins, headpieces, uprights, nosebands, lanyards, throat lashes and girths.
  • Stretched leather straps are used to make stirrups and grith straps for horse saddles.

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