The name says it all for Argentina’s Rocinante

14/09/2015
Argentinean tanner Rocinante is well named because Rocinante is the name of the horse Don Quixote rides in Cervantes’ eternal work of literary genius.

What makes Rocinante an appropriate name in the context of leather is that the Argentinean company insists on sticking to its specialism: shell cordovan leather from horse hides.

Exhibiting at Lineapelle in September 2015, company president, Norberto Lorenzo, told leatherbiz that he puts Rocinante in the last three or four producers of genuine shell cordovan in the world, alongside Horween Leather in the US, Clayton in the UK and Shinki-Hikaku in Japan. His company is certainly the sole remaining producer of cordovan leather in Argentina.