Since the earliest days of civilization, our forefathers have sought to satisfy the elementary needs of a rural society employing the simple materials available to them. Among this were animal skins from which they prepared leather that they exported to the Middle East, Asia Minor and afar along with franc incense, myrrh and ivory earlier than the days of the legendary Prester John.

From leather, they made parchments on which they recorded their wisdom. They kept for us the parchments that were scrolls and those scrolls contained the secretes of exquisite leather making refined through centuries of observations, experimentation, trials and proofs.

From those scrolls did we learn the art of creating sendsations in leather and whatever finesse we possess today, we owe it to those diligent forefathers of ours and take pride in the skill they devolved upon us as a matter of heritage. We rightfully claim 3000 years of finesse in leather on the grounds of these deep roots in a culture that is thousands of years old which can be proven in the recorded history of ancient civilizations available in most centers of historical records around the world.

We have not been too selfish to keep this heritage for ourselves as we have been sharing all we have to the world. Very much the same as we have given coffee to the world, which is believed to have first grown in the Ethiopian province of Kaffa, thus the name coffee, where the plant grows wild to this day, two types of skins in the international market are also named after two other Ethiopian provinces. Bati Genuine, a type of goat skin from goats of the Ethiopian province of Bati, some 300 kilo meters north of Addis Ababa, and Selallie Sheep skins, also another type of skin that comes from sheep of the Ethiopian province of Selallie stretching from 30 kilo meters north of Addis Ababa to the gorges of Abai (Blue Nile) are names used to refer to sovereign standards in the international leather market.

While this explains some of the qualities of the raw materials we use to prepare the leather garments we offer, the making is only one of the skills devolved upon us as a pride through centuries of tradition.

Many share and cherish this pride with us as satisfied customers and our invitation to you is to join this list of satisfied customers around the world. Surely you will enjoy choosing GLC as your source of leather garments and congratulations for that.