A Footwear Future platform

Every material. Every certificate.One place.

Digitise your range, verify the documents behind it, and quote buyers directly. Made for footwear and leather goods.

A sourcing network that stays open

Meet suppliers through Footwear Future and keep their materials findable year-round.

GRS

Certificate example

FSC

Certificate example

Verified by the Footwear Future team

Company certificates, material certificates and test reports.

A catalogue should not expire in your inbox.

PDFs go out of date. Colour cards arrive in another thread. The certificate is somewhere in a spreadsheet. Buyers and suppliers lose time piecing the same details together again.

FF Materials gives each range one searchable home, with the specs and documents alongside it.

Leathers

Nappa leather

Portugal · Chrome-free bovine

Douro Hides

The details are there. They are just scattered.

Find the material behind the next sample.

Search public materials by category, sub-category, country of origin, tags or certification. Open a supplier profile and see the range behind one swatch.

leather
Category: LeathersCountry: ItalyCertification: GRS

Vegetable-tanned leather

Rolled leather

Nappa leather

Sand suede split

Engineered mesh

Natural rubber outsole

Materials shown for illustration.

Cognac nappa leather swatchCognacNP-COG

A material is more than its cover photo.

Keep the detail buyers ask for close to the image: composition, unit, material code, tags, documents and colourways. Each colourway can carry its own images, code, composition and MOQ.

Material
Finished leather
Colourways
Cognac
Specifications
Composition · unit · MOQ
Sharing

Put the certificate beside the claim.

The Footwear Future team reviews company and material certificates and test reports. Buyers can filter for certified materials and see each document’s status.

Material certificateApprovedTE-GRS-SC-0913GRS Scope Certificate
Issuer
Certification body
Issue date
Oct 16, 2025
Expiry date
Oct 24, 2026

Issuer, issue date and expiry date

Company certificatePendingITK-COMP-0007FSC Certificate
Issuer
Certification body
Issue date
May 24, 2025
Expiry date
Sep 24, 2026

Review status kept with the organisation

Test reportApprovedTR-2026-0092Physical test
Issuer
Testing laboratory
Issue date
Sep 6, 2026
Expiry date
No expiry

Attachments and expiry tracking

Illustrative documents; no real certificate or certification mark is shown.

From selected colourway to formal quote.

Buyers choose materials and colourways, request a quote in up to two currencies, and add notes. Suppliers respond with a formal quotation, a validity window and the required signature or company stamp.

Quotation requestMaterials selected
  • Finished leatherColourway · Cognac
  • Outsole compoundColourway · Natural
Requested currencyOptional currencyNotes for supplier
Accepted
QuotationsQT-2026-0003Northfield Tannery
USD · FOBEUR · CIF
Validity window
Signature or company stamp
  1. Requested
  2. Quoted
  3. Accepted
Oct 6, 2026View

Take a swatch pile into the next conversation.

Group materials into reorderable collections. Bring materials and components into a project with attachments and remarks, then share a concise or detailed view.

Collections

Build a seasonal range

Arrange materials in the order buyers should see them. Share the collection by link when it is ready.

ReorderableShared by link

Projects

Keep the concept together

Bring materials, components, notes and files into one documented product concept.

AttachmentsRemarks

Ask the supplier who made it.

Connect with organisations and talk in real time. Share text, images and documents with the material context close at hand.

Supplier contactConnected organisationOnline
Material contextFinished leather · Cognac
Could you share the colour card and the latest material certificate?
Of course. I have attached both here.Colour card · documentMaterial certificate · PDF
DeliveredSeen
Perfect, thank you.
Write a message…

The industry meets at Footwear Future. It sources on FF Materials.

Footwear Future brings the trade together through conventions, summits and the journal. FF Materials keeps supplier ranges findable between events, across Mainland China, Southeast Asia and global buyer teams.

Built and hosted from Hong Kong. Available in English and Simplified Chinese.

English简体中文

Built for the people who make materials and the people who specify them.

For suppliers

Put the full range to work.

Give buyers a current, searchable view of your materials. Control what is public, shared by link, password-protected or kept private.

  • Tanneries and mills
  • Synthetic makers
  • Component makers
  • Small and mid-size teams

For buyers

Specify with the details in view.

Discover supplier ranges, collect materials for a concept and request quotations directly from the people behind them.

  • Footwear brands
  • Product designers
  • Sourcing managers
  • Factories and developers

From a supplier’s material record to a buyer’s quote.

One material range moves through discovery and into the commercial conversation, carrying its images, colourways and documents along the way.

Pending
QuotationsQT-2026-0003Northfield Tannery
USD · FOBEUR · CIF
Oct 6, 2026View
Formal quotation from Northfield Tannery

Plans for suppliers. Buyers are always free.

A supplier plan sets how many materials you hold, how many you list publicly, how many people can work in the account, and how many quotations and projects are open at once.

Two months free on yearly

Buyers and designers never pay. Their accounts have no limits.

Keep the materials conversation moving.

Start with the range you have. Make it easier to find, verify and quote.