LEATHER CARE

Leather - A Natural Product
Anyone opting for natural leather is opting for an extraordinary product of nature. This is something we sense from that typical leather feel and the look that only genuine natural leather can give. Each skin and each hide is unique. Because of the very character of leather, scratches, scars and insect stings should not be considered flaws but as the expression of a product which is entirely natural. The same applies to colour and structural fluctuation from one skin to the next of from one hide to the next. This means that a garment made from leather left in its natural state can never be totally indetical in terms of its colour or structure. Customers who feel this to be unacceptable can be pointed towards leather types which have been treated to give their surfaces a uniform all-over covering of colour. Below we have provided some tips and instructions on the best way to look after leather articles, both in-store and in general use:


Care Instructions

Cleaning
Most smooth leather types and also lambskin suedes tend to lose the typical leather appearance described above if dry cleaned. For this reason, with many types of leather wewould advise avoiding any kind of dry cleaning. Most leather types can naturally be safely cleaned by a good specialist leather dry cleaner, although it is not reasonable to expect the appearance to remain precisely identical to the original,in our experience, leather qualities which have been foil-coated or embossed may not be dry cleaned under any circumtances. This procedure will frequently result in destroying the foil, or weakening the embossed effect. We also know from experience that, in the case of goatskin suede qualities, a marked colour change frequently results. For these reasons, we use almost exclusively washable goatskin suede.

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