About
Black Burgundy is a color variant of Rambler leather manufactured by Charles F. Stead tannery in Leeds, UK. The color combines hues of black and purple to create a rich, deep plum appearance. Like all Rambler leathers, Black Burgundy features a flesh-side finish with hand-applied antique contrast beneath a blend of natural waxes, creating a marbled aesthetic with depth of color and rugged texture.
About
Black Burgundy is a color variant of Rambler leather manufactured by Charles F. Stead tannery in Leeds, UK. The color combines hues of black and purple to create a rich, deep plum appearance. Like all Rambler leathers, Black Burgundy features a flesh-side finish with hand-applied antique contrast beneath a blend of natural waxes, creating a marbled aesthetic with depth of color and rugged texture.
The leather features intense variations from hide to hide and batch to batch, making each boot produced in this colorway one of a kind. Truman Boot Company is a notable maker that offers boots in Black Burgundy Rambler.
Color and appearance
Black Burgundy Rambler presents a distinctive color profile that sets it apart from other Rambler colorways. The rich, deep plum tone results from combining black and purple hues in the leather's base dye. The hand-applied antique contrast and natural wax finishing create a marbled appearance with complex tonal variations that are difficult to capture photographically.
The leather's finish produces significant variation in tonality across the surface of each hide. This natural variation, combined with batch-to-batch differences in the dyeing and finishing process, ensures that no two pieces of Black Burgundy Rambler are identical. The depth of color ranges from darker areas with stronger black influence to lighter sections where the purple hues are more prominent.
Construction and specifications
Black Burgundy Rambler shares the technical specifications common to all Rambler leathers. The leather is a shrunken fiber suede finished on the flesh side of the hide, with thickness ranging between 1.2 and 2.2 mm. The weight measures 4.5 to 5 ounces (1.8 to 2 mm). Average skin size is 12 to 14 square feet.
The production process includes chrome tannage followed by hand-applied antique contrast treatment. A blend of natural waxes is applied to the flesh-side surface, creating the leather's characteristic marbled aesthetic. The antique colors are hand-blended to complement the base dying, producing the authentic rugged appearance with depth of color and texture that defines the Rambler line.
References
"Black Burgundy Rambler". Truman Boot Company. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
"Rambler". Charles F Stead and Co Ltd. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
"C.F. Stead Rambler Leather". The Tannery Row. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
