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There is a moment, somewhere in the second or third week of carrying a piece of full-grain leather, when it stops looking like something you bought and starts looking like something you own. The surface changes. Light moves across it differently. A shade darker here, a little more depth there. Nothing was done to it. It simply lived. This is patina, and it is the entire reason raw leather has been prized for centuries over anything synthetic or coated. The Hide, Before It Bec