Crocodile skin comes from Africa’s Nile River region. This beautiful skin has a larger scale pattern compared to the Crocodile Porosus (often wild). Crocodile skins have small “pores”, which look like small dimples in each scale cell. Crocodiles have these dots throughout their bodies. The shiny version comes from continuous buffing until it shows a gloss. The tanning process is a ancestral method lile an art. Probably 5 workshop in France owns this « savoir-faire » for this very rare « work-art ».
The Alligator Mississippiensis is farmed in Florida (USA). Alligator skin has an umbilical scar, which is an elongated irregular shape with a webbing pattern in it, which is often placed prominently on products to show the authenticity of the leather. Alligator has small rectangular scales in the middle and smaller, oval-shaped scales down the sides. Alligator is commonly dyed in a variety of colors.
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