FORGE-APRONS now offers choices in leather. Our standard leather is a distressed brown that is chrome tanned. It is pliable and breaks in quickly but if you want a blacksmith apron that is comfortable and soft from day one, then you will appreciate our super-soft, pliable buckskin yellow bovine leather option or our soft black bovine leather option - which is not quite as soft as the buckskin but your blacksmithing apron will never look dirty!