Handbags and small leather goods

A handbag wears in places that are easy to point out: the corners, the base, the handles and the edge of the flap. Add scratches on the grain and colour that turns grey with dust on light leathers and fades in the sun on dark ones.

It is exactly the same work as on a seat, just on a smaller scale and with more precision: filling the damage, recreating the grain, re-colouring and protection.

How we do it

• Cleaning suited to the type of leather — handbags are more often aniline or uncoated full-grain leather than anything else we see.
• Filling worn corners and edges.
• Recreating the grain and colour; re-colouring the whole surface if the shade has drifted unevenly.
• Protection.

What we don't do

We don't take leather clothing: gloves, coats and jackets. It is a different leather, different colours and a different process, and with clothing there is also the cut and the lining — we would do it worse than workshops that specialise in nothing else.

We don't deal with hardware, zips or linings either. If a bag needs a new zip, that's a job for a leather goods maker — the leather and the colour are ours.