Vegetable-tanning leather and parchment tannery · Montgomery, New York, United States
Pergamena
Overview
Vegetable-tanned leather at Pergamena
Pergamena traces its family tanning history to 1550 and says the business moved to its current Hudson River Valley home in southern New York in 1981. Its current FAQ identifies the facilities in Montgomery, New York, and the contact page says the working facility is open to the public only during Master Classes rather than as a normal walk-in store.[1][9][10]
The tannery's leather overview documents vegetable-tanned goat, cow, deer, and calf leather, ready-made and custom work, small-batch commissions, and applications from bookbinding and restoration through accessories, craft work, shoes, interiors, and furniture. The live public shop is narrower and stock-sensitive, so broad tannery capability should not be presented as continuously available retail inventory.[2][3]
Buying formats
The strongest current maker-scale offer is a small goat-hide bundle, supplemented by splits and paid samples.
- Buying formats
- Vegetable-tanned goat hides in two-, four-, or six-hide bundles, Vegetable-tanned goat, calf, and deer split suede as single pieces or multi-piece packs, Leather sample packs with up to four or five-plus swatches, Availability-sensitive whole goat, calf, sheep, cow, deer, and specialty leather listings
- Leather categories
- USA vegetable-tanned goat hides at approximately 3-4 oz, Chestnut-tanned goat and calf leather, Vegetable-tanned split suede in thin and extra-thick formats, Goat, cow, deer, and calf leather with standard and custom finish options
- Verified services
- Public online ordering, Contact-based custom color, surface, thickness, and small-batch development, Project consultation and material guidance
- Shipping coverage
- United States
The current Black & Blue and GOAT All Over listing offers USA vegetable-tanned goat hides in bundles of two, four, or six. The hides are described as approximately 3-4 oz and tanned by hand at Pergamena's Hudson Valley tannery, with a product-level choice among an unfinished state, a soft shiny finish, or a pebbled finish with slight shine. This establishes a direct maker-facing offer, but the smallest documented unit is a two-hide bundle rather than one hide.[4]
The split-suede listing offers vegetable-tanned goat, calf, and deer splits as a thin single piece, six- or twelve-piece thin packs, one extra-thick split, or six- and twelve-piece extra-thick packs. The page describes thin splits at roughly 1 oz and 3-4 square feet and extra-thick splits at 3 oz or more and usually 5 square feet or more; these are approximate product specifications and availability-sensitive formats, not guaranteed dimensions for every piece.[5]
Paid sample packs provide up to four 3-by-4-inch swatches or a separate five-plus-swatch route, with requested color, thickness, and finish entered in the checkout order note. Available sample materials may include standard goat and calfskin finishes plus cow, deer, and sheepskin, but the page makes those materials subject to availability.[6]
Service details
Custom development is documented, but product formats and tannery preparation are not open-ended customer services.
Pergamena states that it can develop custom colors, surfaces, textures, thicknesses, durability, and functional qualities and can handle both small-batch commissions and larger production. The custom-consultation route is contact based, and the reviewed pages do not publish universal minimums, development fees, sampling terms, tolerances, or lead times for every custom leather request.[2][11]
The finish choices on the current goat bundle are product-specific options, while thin and extra-thick splits are catalog products created as by-products of tannery splitting. Likewise, statements that Hudson leather is split to a listed thickness describe product manufacture. None of those facts establishes a general customer-requested splitting, skiving, strap-cutting, or arbitrary cut-to-size service.[4][5][12]
The shop information page says individual orders are considered custom and generally take about three weeks to make, that custom-order availability and shipping timing should be discussed with a Pergamena specialist, that the tannery typically ships two days per week, and that orders above 60 square feet or 12 skins should be handled through the bulk-order contact route. Those thresholds should not be converted into a sitewide retail minimum for current stocked products.[7]
Order planning
Shipping and returns.
Direct United States delivery was verified on the current goat-hide bundle
A current no-order checkout used the Black & Blue and GOAT All Over two-hide, As Is variant. The checkout displayed United States as the shipping country and offered FedEx Ground delivery before an address or payment was submitted. The review stopped before order placement, which supports a direct US filter without publishing a fixed freight price.[13]
Processing time is separate from carrier transit time
Pergamena's policies say most production is at least partially made to order, that orders are generally fulfilled within two weeks when material is available, and that shipping speed begins only after fulfillment. Other current shop language uses an estimated three-week window, so buyers should confirm the selected item's production status and expected ship date rather than treating the carrier option as total delivery time.[7][8]
The return policy welcomes an exchange when material does not suit the intended purpose and allows a partial or full refund of the original amount within two weeks of receipt when an exchange is not possible, subject to a restocking fee of up to 15%. Sale items, one-off leather, leather splits, and scrap are final sale. Custom orders are separately described as non-returnable except for exchanges or credit, while the shop page says individual orders are considered custom; because that wording overlaps, buyers should confirm the exact return classification of ordinary web orders and configurable finishes before purchase.[7][8]
Decision guide
When this supplier may be worth comparing.
Potentially useful if you need
- Buying a current USA vegetable-tanned goat offer in a two-, four-, or six-hide bundle.
- Choosing among product-specific finish options on the representative goat bundle.
- Using thin or extra-thick vegetable-tanned split suede for bookbinding, garments, linings, backing, practice, or other suitable small projects.
- Ordering paid swatches with requested color, thickness, and finish notes before discussing a larger order.
- Working directly with a US tannery on a contact-based custom color, surface, thickness, or small-batch brief.
- Ordering the current representative goat offer through a verified direct United States checkout route.
Confirm before ordering
- The selected leather's current stock, animal, tannage, finish, thickness, dimensions or measured area, color, price, and smallest orderable unit.
- Live availability changes across the leather shop; recheck the selected product, size, finish, and variant immediately before ordering.
- The exact minimum, development cost, sample process, lead time, tolerances, and repeatability for custom colors, finishes, thicknesses, or production runs.
- Any requested splitting, skiving, strap cutting, or cut-to-size work because no general customer-facing program was verified.
- The current carrier, final shipping charge, destination eligibility, and total fulfillment plus transit timing for the selected order.
- Return eligibility before ordering a sale item, one-off, split, scrap, custom order, or a web product with selectable finishing.
- Whether an ordinary individual web order is treated as custom under the return policy, because the current shop and policy wording overlap.
Research record
Official sources.
- Who We Are — current family and tannery history, 1981 relocation to the Hudson River Valley in southern New York, current vegetable-tanned leather production, chestnut and chestnut-plus-mimosa tannin descriptions, and working-tannery identity.
- Leather — current goat, cow, deer, and calf capabilities; thickness ranges; ready-made and custom leather; small-batch and large-scale production; applications; standard finishes; and custom color, surface, durability, and function development.
- Shop Leather — current public leather catalog, prices, available and sold-out status, samples, split suede, goat and calf products, and the availability-sensitive scope of the maker-facing shop.
- Black & Blue and GOAT All Over — current direct-order USA vegetable-tanned goat offer, two-, four-, and six-hide bundle choices, As Is and two finished variants, approximately 3-4 oz hides, and Hudson Valley tannery provenance.
- Thin and Extra-Thick Leather Suede (Split Suede) — current vegetable-tanned goat, calf, and deer split-suede formats, single and multi-piece packs, approximate thickness and area, suggested uses, processing caveat, and explicit non-refundable status.
- Leather Sample Packs (Up to 4 swatches) — current paid 3-by-4-inch sample format, requested color, thickness, and finish workflow, material types subject to availability, industry selector, retained matching samples, and included domestic shipping for this sample product.
- Shop Pergamena — current individual-order custom classification, approximate three-week production language, twice-weekly shipping statement, rush-order process, natural-material variation, and contact threshold above 60 square feet or 12 skins.
- Policies — current partially made-to-order fulfillment, shipping-versus-fulfillment distinction, delay and rush language, batch variation, custom-order exchange-or-credit limitation, general two-week exchange or refund path, up-to-15% restocking fee, and final-sale categories.
- Contact — current creator-facing contact route, amateur and professional project guidance, office hours, facility access only during Master Classes, email, and telephone details.
- FAQ — current official reference to Pergamena's facilities in Montgomery, New York, plus vegetable-tanned leather and custom color or type guidance.
- Custom Consultation — current project-consultation workflow, design, technical, budget, material-efficiency, and application support, plus country-inclusive inquiry form; this is an inquiry route rather than proof of shipping to every listed country.
- Hudson Goat Stocked Leather - 3oz and 4oz — current chestnut vegetable-tanned goat specifications, enabled color, thickness, and size selectors, custom-color minimum warning, one-to-three-week processing language, and orderable variants; splitting language is treated as product manufacture rather than a customer service.
- Secure Checkout — current no-order checkout observation for the Black & Blue and GOAT All Over two-hide As Is variant: the shipping-address country displayed United States and checkout offered FedEx Ground delivery. The review stopped before address submission, payment, or order placement; the page is session-dependent and does not establish a fixed rate, every US subdestination, or international delivery.
Research last checked October 16, 2026. Supplier inventory and policies can change; confirm current details on the supplier’s site before ordering.