Material Information

Ecological Leather

No poison on your feet! We want you not to have to worry. It doesn’t matter whether your little ones put on our carponis barefoot or put them in their mouths. We guarantee that all of our shoes are made from metal-free tanned leather.

We get our leather from a small tannery in Portugal, which was one of the first to start tanning its leather using the wet-white process back in the 80s.

The wet-white process (chromium-free) is used for tanning without the use of heavy metals. This protects the environment, is safe to use and also has a few great properties:

Wide Colour Gamut
Design is important to us! For this reason, we also need a large selection of colors in order to be able to serve both current trends and classics. Our ecological leather can be dyed in almost any imaginable color.
Soft Touch
Your little one’s skin is still very tender and vulnerable. For this reason, the shoes should be nice and soft and fit perfectly. This of course also applies to the sole, which almost feels like walking barefoot. The aniline leather used at Carponi has a pleasantly warm and soft touch thanks to its open-pore structure.
Beauty in Aging
Your little ones discover something new every day. When crawling, playing, running, the shoes are stressed and are constant companions. This gives the leather a chic patina. Each pair of Carponi crawling shoes becomes a unicat with its very own story when worn.
Biodegradable
We try to use every piece of leather perfectly, but a little bit of waste cannot be avoided. It’s good that our leather is 100% compostable – after less than 15 days (ISO 20200:2015).
Trust is Good, Control is Better
When it comes to the health of our customers, we play it safe. We trust our supplier, who even uses his leather scraps as fertilizer in his own fruit and vegetable garden. Nevertheless, we don’t want to take any risks and therefore have our leather checked constantly.