The finished dress and sports gloving leather are produced from Ethiopian highland hair sheepskins, which are traditionally known as “Abyssinian” or in short “Abyss”. “Abyss” is known for its high quality grain and compact fiber structure to be shaved down to the lowest possible thickness without loosing their tear and tensile strength.

ELICO – Gloving and Hide Unit is a highly specialized tannery with over 50 years of experience in the processing and export of Ethiopian hair sheepskins for leather gloves and garment producers throughout the world. It produces ladies’ and men’s dress gloving leathers in the traditional black and brown as well as trendy aniline colors. It also produces one of the finest golf gloving leather in silver and snow white colors which have gained great popularity among world famous sports gloves producers.

Other lines of leather production in the tannery include fully finished leathers for garment and shoes made from the “Abyss”. Shoe upper leathers made from Ethiopian hair sheepskins seem to have no match with their superiority in quality with regard to fineness, tightness and grain structure.