Billy Tannery and British Pasture Leather link up for regenerative leather bag

By

Nigel TAYLOR

Published
May 23, 2024

Pioneering leather businesses Billy Tannery and British Pasture Leather have collaborated to showcase regenerative British leather with the new Fauna handbag launch.

It’s Billy Tannery’s first handbag and the Fauna is produced using deer suede and cattle leather, designed with British Pasture Leather co-founder Alice Robinson and made in Somerset. 

Both companies champion vegetable-tanned leather, fully traceable to the source and promote positive environmental and welfare practices. While Billy Tannery focuses on goat and deerskins and British Pasture Leather on cattle hides, they say they both produce “leather filled with character”.

“Natural scratches and marks are celebrated and make each piece of leather unique; stories of a life well-lived”, they explained.

The name Fauna also reinforces this link, it being the word for “animal life traced back to the god of earth and fertility”.

The bag comes with an adjustable strap allowing it to be worn as either a crossbody or shoulder bag and includes a magnetic flap opened to reveal a spacious interior with a zip pocket and small slip pocket. 

Billy Tannery founder Jack Millington said: “Launching The Fauna is a ground-breaking moment for us in many ways. Not only is it our first handbag, but the project allowed us to work with a company we’ve admired for a long time. An exciting community is building around positive grassroots leather projects in the UK and this collaboration with British Pasture Leather is a proud moment.” 

Priced at £585, an initial limited batch will be available to pre-order from Billy Tannery from 23 May for delivery to customers in June.