Cano Huaraches

Cano is a German shoe brand on a mission to bring Mexican craftsmanship to a global audience with their ethically crafted, high quality and sustainable woven leather huarache sandals, loafers and slippers.Their goal is twofold: to promote the huarache and its sustainable craftsmanship, and to empower and enable the artisans they work with to provide for themselves and their families. Their huaraches are made in a small town called Sahuayo, in the state of Michoacán (one of the states huaraches originated from), by artisans that they found after visiting a variety of workshops, factories and living rooms in a scrupulous search for the best in town. Cano has a close relationship with their artisans, spending several months in Mexico each year and united by the common goal of promoting handmade Mexican artistry around the globe.

The materials that CANO use are also sourced as sustainably as possible; as their leather is a locally sourced by-product produced by nearby wide open ranches in Michoacán, Jalisco and Colima, which CANO have personally visited. The leather is tanned using the traditional 200 year old vegetable tanning method, which doesn’t use any toxic or harmful chemicals such as formaldehyde or chrome. Whilst the unsustainable chrome tanning process takes 5 days, the artisanal way slows this down, using a 14 step process that takes up to four weeks to complete, as well as multiple days where the leather dries naturally outdoors. The tanning agents used come from certified European suppliers and are made from leaves, woods and fruits such as chestnut trees and pomegranate.

We use NFC-tags to store all the supply chain data of your CANOs. Our suppliers of our raw materials and every artisan has a NFC-tag writer to put his or her information on the NFC-tag that is integrated in the product.