Launched in Switzerland in 2008 and brought to America in 2010, Hirzl is a manufacturer of bike gloves and golf gloves that uses a combination of cabretta (sheep) leather, mesh and kangaroo leather.

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Saddlers declared by their peers to be using sheep's leather, deemed to be an inferior way to finish a saddle, were slapped with hefty fines.

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