Vintage Carved
Posted in Uncategorized on 05/05/2008 08:13 am by admin Vintage Carved
i have a very old morroccan camel leather purse. how can i restore the suppleness of the leather?
my mother gave me a morroccan camel leather purse that she was given when she was a young girl. i am interested in bringing it out of my closet because of its amazing vintage appeal, but the leather is somewhat dry. it is still a little supple, but i dont want to bring it out without restoring it to its original suppleness. i also was wondering what sort of treatment i could put on it to protect it from the environment if i do bring it out. any suggestions? the purse is beautifully carved all over- i didnt know if that would affect the way i should care for it.
I restore vintage handbags all the time and the very best treatment to clean and refresh, but also revive leather (whatever the animal it came from!) is probably to "polish" it with some neutral (i.e. not coloured) shoe cream - not wax but cream.
To fully restore your bag, you may have to apply the cream then polish it off quite a few times over to achieve the desired effect.
Hope this helps!
P.S. the fact that the leather of your bag was tooled will not affect the product you should use on it but I must warn you that the cream may well decide to "stagnate" in the smaller and more intricate parts of the design which means you might have quite a job removing it from there during the polishing phase(s) - some cotton buds may be of help if this occurs!
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