Leather Types and Restoration Techniques

Leather Types and Restoration Techniques

Aniline Leather The most attractive and natural leathers due to their soft natural feel and appearance. These are leathers which have been aniline dyed through in a vat and have no sealant coating. They are the most expensive leathers to produce because only the very...
Sun bleached aniline sofa

Sun bleached aniline sofa

This sofa has been sitting in a conservatory… Aniline leather is unsealed, and thus unprotected from UV damage, it fades extremely quickly in sunlight. Re-colouring it is notoriously difficult to get right as the leather was originally dyed in trays rather than...
Dyeing brushed aniline sofas

Dyeing brushed aniline sofas

Our clients recently bought their property, and 3 of these sofas came with it. They are enormous at nearly 3 metres long… and they are extremely damaged by the sun and stained as any sealant that was once on them has long since worn off.   We created a...
Ralph Lauren Aniline Leather Restoration

Ralph Lauren Aniline Leather Restoration

Aniline leather is great for furniture. It feels and looks beautiful due to it’s natural and untreated nature… Yet what makes it wonderful also leads to it’s one downside, aniline leather will fade and look distressed very quickly if it is not...