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Range Focus – Boxmark Royal

Range Focus – Boxmark Royal

Boxmark Royal is a hard wearing leather with a noticeable grain. This translates to a material that shows the beauty of a natural product, combined with the strength to take considerable wear and tear. The range is incredibly versatile making it suitable for automotive environments and furniture. It can also be easily treated for use…


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Range Focus – Old Timer

Range Focus – Old Timer

Old Timer is a top dyed veg tan leather. The traditional manufacturing process means the leather will darken with age and patinas, to give it a more traditional leather appearance. These characteristics make this range a great choice for authentic restoration work on classic cars. You can find out more about the characteristics and technical specifications…


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Parts of a Hide

Parts of a Hide

Ever wondered what the different parts of a hide are called? Then wonder no more… The measurements shown in this diagram are just an example. Obviously, every hide is a different size – dependent on the leather range you have selected, and where it has been sourced. If you would like a handy download you…


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Black Friday Special Offers

Black Friday Special Offers

Following the success of last year’s promotion, we are running a Black Friday event again this year. Only, this time, it’s not just one day… the event is from 23-30 November 2018 inclusive. Check out the fantastic deals we have on offer… Discontinued colours: Autocalf: The colours shown in the gallery below have now been discontinued,…


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Introducing Dinamica

Introducing Dinamica

We are delighted to announce that we are now the approved UK distributors for Dinamica. Dinamica is a microfibre fabric with a suede like feel. It has excellent technical specifications, and wearability, and is used by many leading automotive brands including Mercedes, BMW, Porsche and Land Rover. The full technical specifications are available here: Dinamica…


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February Fever

February Fever

After the success of our Black Friday campaign, back in November, we are delighted to launch February Fever, with some fantastic offers on automotive leather… Autocalf We have now discontinued the colours shown in the gallery below, and have very limited stock levels. Autocalf  is a corrected, quality leather based on the old Connolly colour palette,…


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New display for New Wave

New display for New Wave

Our lovely customers, New Wave Custom Conversions, specialise in converting VW Transporters and camper vans. They take huge pride in what they do, and deliver a really premium result. They have just fitted out a new showroom, and wanted to share the results with us… We think they have done a great job… This is…


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Did you see us at BIID?

Did you see us at BIID?

Did you know we are Industry Partners for the British Institute of Interior Design? Here’s Tim Barlow, our General Manager, just getting ready to chat to some designers at the recent BIID Annual Conference. This is the second year we have supported the Conference and we really enjoyed it. It was a pleasure to meet…


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