Our Inspiration

Two Islands & Co wanted to be able to provide customers with high quality, handcrafted leather goods that are sustainably made.  We can proudly say our leather products are both sustainable and ethically sourced, then with a touch of love they are handmade into the beautiful collection that we can offer you today.  

Questioning if purchasing leather is a good choice?

All of our products are by-products of the meat industry, and we only use hides that are sourced from ethical conditions. This is extremely important to us that our customers can feel self-assured when purchasing from Two Islands & Co that they are making a well-informed choice by not harming any animals or the environment in any way, infact quite the opposite, as without the leather industry millions of skins would end up in landfill each year, which in turn creates further environmental issues.  

If sustainable means converting materials that would be otherwise thrown away to make the products we use to live, keeping things for a long time, repairing them when we need to, passing them on to someone else to use after us and, eventually, recycling the product as many times as possible… Leather is most certainly sustainable!

Here’s how leather meets those criteria:

• Leather is based on a raw material that is a by-product of animal meat and milk, which are required by consumers
• It is a by-product of the food industry that is up-cycled, preventing 7.3million tons of waste each year
• Leather is long-lasting

Modern leather manufacturing recycles around 270 million cowhides a year, around 7.3 million tonnes, that might otherwise go to waste and landfill sites, posing a huge environmental and biological problem. Modern leather manufacturing is safe, compliant and very regulated. In this way leather can be said to be both a recycled and sustainable material.