FISHCRAFT

Fish leather promises to be affordable and care for the environment.
Professor Sinha is principal innovator of fish leather that comes from Kolkata. Fishcraft gives an overview of its production. Collecting fish skins from large fish markets, tanning them with vegetable chemicals found in churned bark and stitching products out of dried and hardened skins, now leather.
Fishcraft touches on why fish leather has to make to the market. Poaching for leather hide endangers the wild. Fish, a staple diet in many cuisines, can make for the demand for leather. Fish waste is dumped plentiful in oceans and other water bodies. Preserving fish skins for leather removes a large portion of it. As Professor Sinha says, there is no hunting for fish leather, there is no oceanic pollution. Professor Sinha makes fish leather putting to use common household ingredients. There, his process of tanning becomes low cost.
Professor Sinha admires the aesthetics of fish leather. It bears a scaly pattern, much like snake skin leather. At the same time, it is cheaper than it. For consumers looking for comfort under their feet, fish leather shoes do press soft.
Fishcraft probes the process that produces fish leather and showcases products borne of it. But at its heart, the documentary lingers on why fish must replace traditional fodders for leather.