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Oak Bark Belt

The Red Dog Company

£149

Following on from our popular Oak Bark Collars we have asked our saddlers to produce a limited edition Oak Bark Belt, handmade to the same high standards, using our signature red stitching and brass buckle with stainless steel tongue - a classic belt that will last a lifetime. Oak Bark leather has been tanned at Baker’s Tannery, on the banks of the River Coly in Colton since Roman times, and the process has changed very little. The traditional oak bark tannage method is a long tannage. After liming the raw hides to loosen the hair, the hides are initially soaked in very weak tan liquors in pit

The Red Dog Company's own words, read from their page.

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as RED DOG HOLDINGS LIMITED, number 11381400. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "From our Hampshire base we have scoured the country to find the very best British materials and manufacturers." Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.