Over a Century of Exploration
The Horween Leather Company was founded in 1905 during the “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.” In 1911, while Sir Ernest Shackleton was developing plans for his “Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition” from South America to Australia—by way of Antarctica—Isidor Horween was developing a water-resistant leather he would soon bring to market as Chromexcel. Over a century and four Horween generations later, Isidor’s journey has reached a new milestone with Shackleton: a distinctive waterproof leather as well-suited for the perils of maritime exploration as it is for pipes with the Fellows of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.