Leather cleaning and repair

Introduction:
This web page is intended to give basic leather cleaning and restoration guidance to collectors, re-enactors and living history enthusiasts who want to carry out repairs and restoration to leather articles made in or around the 1940s.

Please note: this is not aimed at museum conservators who will already have complex processes in place for conserving precious leather artifacts. This is a basic common sense guide to 'leather fettling' for ordinary folk, written with the backing of more than thirty years experience in the leather trade and offered without any guarantees - either implied or explicit!