Luxury biodegradable vegetable tanned leather belt BANFF EMPATHY 406 with wooden buckle

BANFF EMPATHY 406

Sophisticated craftsmanship solution to fix designers’ wooden buckles made of used wood offcuts to the leather with wooden screws.

• Buckle model: Empathy
• Belt width: 40mm
• Wood type: Walnut
• Belt material: Vegetable tanned leather
• Belt material color: Black

High-quality one-piece cowhide leather, soft and vegetable tanned. A unique combination of the wooden buckle with classic business or casual leather 30 or 40 mm wide is excellent and never out of fashion.

Elegant leather colours. Any gender friendly.

No metal, no allergies, airport friendly.

Easy repair and re-use since we don’t use any sewing.

At the end of the journey, all models are biodegradable.

The product is based on the Impact Design with high social and environmental impact.

Feel good. Look good. Do good.

Technical series

The fashionable and uniquely designed NUT series brings innovative solutions to fix the buckle to the belt with the wooden nut, screw, and clamp.

You can assemble your NUT belt by choosing different belt elements – buckle model, belt width, wood type, belt material and colour of the material.

• Belt fixed to buckle with wooden nut and screw
• No metal parts or sewing used
• Size adjustment level: moderate
• Possible personalisation
• Fashionable, innovative and unique design

Empathy is a fashionably curved buckle in a timeless design.

Black is timeless belt material color for any occasion.

Wood Belt

Wood Belt combines enthusiasm, innovation, design, impact, craftsmanship, care, persistence, and more.

In addition, Wood Belt is a refined blend of people and nature.

We live Wood Belt as a life philosophy.

Based on the impact design approach, we try hard to achieve a high positive impact on society and people and build a community of caring people.

We are creating a place where fashion meets nature.

Our products are a unique blend of functionalities and advantages.

Wood Belt created its first logo in 2019 as a wooden Wood Belt sign combined with the red NO and green ON.

The red NO symbol in the logo represents the unacceptability of using belts for violence and the unacceptability of any violence.

The green ON symbol in the logo indicates that people with allergies to metal alloys can also use the belt, it can always stay on, and there is no need to remove it.

We also link both colours to Wood Belt’s impact on nature since we support impact activities in national parks. With green colour, we marked programs for sustainable management of forests, and with red programs to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss.

In 2023 we changed our logo. The new logo represents our growing fashion brand and fits into the fashion industry better. While not directly communicated through the logo, we remain dedicated to all values our first logo represented.

SUSTAINABILITY

• • Our goal is to have 75% of collections and products biodegradable.
• • We make buckles out of wood cutoffs as a circular economy product.
• PETA vegan-approved cork and other certified materials.
• Use of leather as a by-product of the food industry, addressing the problem of waste disposal
• The leather is tanned using natural plant-based tannins. As opposed to synthetic products, tannins come from renewable sources. They are antioxidant, antibiotic and antibacterial. The production process of our tanneries is metal-free, and it always has been, thanks to the raw materials linked to the centuries-old history of vegetable tanning.
• We use water-based adhesives for the leather.
• We protect the wood with certified oils for the food industry.
• We develop products using new, sustainable materials (NUO Textile, plants vegan leather etc.)
• We motivate buyers and the community to sustainable behaviour with our Impact Fashion Style Score and Impact Fashion Pledge.
• In 2022 Wood Belt was selected to participate in the »Small but perfectly formed« project, financed by the European Union, accelerating small and medium fashion enterprises to transition to circular and sustainable models.

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