REPAIRING LEATHER: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LEATHER REPAIR

Leather repair: our advice for the best result

Is your leather sofa worn? Has the rubbing of clothes caused cracks? You can make it look like new again with leather repair products. Are your car seats damaged?

We offer effective solutions to renovate them quickly and without tools.

Cleaning: the first step before repairing leather

Before repairing the leather, the first step is to clean the area concerned. Depending on the condition of your sofa or car seat, you will not use the same product.

For less heavily soiled leathers, a cleaning oil will be enough. It will remove dirt that is not ingrained. A stain remover cleaner will help you remove stubborn stains.

We also offer nourishing products that you can use afterwards as part of regular maintenance. Choosing a leather cleaning kit is also a cost-effective solution.

Large cracks or snags: choosing the right product

After washing your car seat, your sofa or even your leather goods, you will need to assess the extent of the damage.

Indeed, you will not use the same products for cracks as for snags or tears. Do you want to repair a hole or a large crack on a car seat? Go for our repair paste.

This quality product comes in the form of liquid leather. It fills the hole while guaranteeing a long-lasting result. The advantage of this product is that it can be applied to different types of leather.

What is more, you can use it to repair your car seat as well as shoes or a leather bag.

For a clean cut or superficial cracks, try our leather healer. Easy to apply, it ensures an optimal result.

On the practical side, it can be used on surfaces of different colours. Whatever the type of repair to be carried out, we offer suitable quality products.

How do you repair leather?

A leather garment, bag or pair of shoes to repair? To achieve a long-lasting result, you need to use the right products and apply them correctly.

Whether you are repairing scratches on a sofa or renovating a car interior, you need to know certain techniques.

Repairing light cracks on a leather car seat or sofa

Is your sofa showing signs of wear? You can renovate it with our healing liquid cream. It is simply applied with a brush, after carefully bringing the edges of the hole together or pressing down a crack.

This bonds the two parts together to obtain an even result. The leather absorbs the excess cream and so regains a smooth appearance.

This healer has the advantage of being colourless. Black, brown or red... You can use it whatever the colour of your seat or sofa, without having to apply a dye afterwards.

We offer specific products for:

• Furnishing: sofas, armchairs.
• Automotive: car seats, leather steering wheels.
• Leather goods: bags, gloves.
• Shoe repair: shoes, boots, etc.

Follow our advice to repair torn leather

A clean tear can be repaired in a single operation: a reinforcement fabric is bonded behind the edge, a paste rebuilds the thickness, then the finishing dye gives the area the same colour as the rest of the sofa.

The key is to choose a complete solution that combines these three steps, rather than improvising them separately.

What damage? What solution?

Damaged leather is not treated in the same way depending on the nature of the damage. Find yours in this table: it shows you the right action to take, then the solution to turn to for a long-lasting result.

Damage found	What to do	Suitable solution
Scuff, dull or faded leather	Clean, nourish, then revive the original colour	recolouring a leather sofa
Splits, cracked leather	Fill each hollow and rebuild the surface before recolouring	leather repair paste, also called liquid leather
Tear, hole, snag	Reinforce from behind with a fabric, then rebuild the material	torn leather repair kit and our guide to repairing a hole in leather
Pet scratches	Repair the grooves then smooth the scratched surface	our guide to repairing cat scratches on a leather sofa

The same technique, whatever the leather item

The know-how described here does not stop at the living-room sofa: it applies to all your everyday leathers.

On a sagging seat, learn how to renovate a leather club armchair without handing it over to a craftsman, by following the same steps.

Inside a car, repairing the leather of a car seat relies on the same filling followed by recolouring.

In the wardrobe, repairing leather shoes brings a scuffed or cracked pair back to life.

And for your trips out at sea, repairing marine leather upholstery protects your bench seats from sea spray with exactly the same method.