Showing posts with label hand made leather bags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hand made leather bags. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Types of tanning process for the production of leather apparel






Tanning process and treatment has an ultimate effect on the pricing and quality of leather apparel.



Napa: It is a complex tanning process and helps producing very fine grade leather material with perfect finishing.

Aniline: It is process that involves chemical treatment of buffalo, sheep hide in order to acquire the desired color without any compromises whatsoever on the natural texture, tones and shading. The resulted colors are best for the brown leather jackets. 

Nubuck: It is a special hide treatment that extends very high quality finishing very similar to suede. The leather with nubuck treatment get water marks easily and must be treated with care.

Suede: In order to achieve a rubber and matt texture, the opposite side of the hide is used. This treatment is believed to take away the natural durability of the leather.The suede products are very expensive and seude is mostly used in the production of leather blazers.
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Split: In this treatment, low cost production is possible. Through clever methods the hide layer is cut and thin layered slices are formed.

Thursday, 18 July 2013

How to care for your leather hand bag?




Leather hand bags can easily get worn out and dirty if you use them frequently. A fine and genuine leather hand bag requires solid investment so you are always conscious to take the best care of your leather bag. Not much time is required to take care of your bag and get the best in return. Maintain the look and feel of your leather bag through the following easy steps:



Cleanliness of leather hand bags:
1.       Clean the exterior of your shoulder leather bag using soft cloth dipped in warm soap water. Do this once a week to clean your bag from any sort of dirt that may be caused due to hair sprays or pollution. Leave it for drying to revive its shine and looks.

2.       The interior portion of the leather hand bag also gets dirty very easily. Use a lint brush to clean the inner lining for dirt collection. If there are heavy stains then you can consider washing the lining.

3.       Sometimes you can get very heavy stains on the leather hand bag like ink stains, grease stains etc. You can clean them using cotton dipped in alcohol until the stains disappear.
4.       Recondition your leather bag using quality conditioners at least twice in a year to get best results.