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Leather holds a prominent position in the range of classic natural materials, such as wool, cotton, silk or linen fabrics, in the upholsterer trade. The typical characteristics of skin and hide, from which leather is produced, remain unmistakable: They are characteristics like our own skin, such as tenderness, softness, warmth, elasticity. However, also robustness and toughness are signs of its nature and genuineness.
DRAENERT supplies 3 different leather collections:
- Leather I is a high quality coated nappa leather from German and Austrian
cattle hides. It is fully coloured and has a coloured top coating, which largely covers up the natural characteristics, like fattening folds, insect bites and skin injuries. Due to this, it becomes very hard-wearing, is easy to care for and to a great extent insensitive to light.
- Leather II includes the whole Elmosoft® VII collection from Sweden. This is
very supple and lightly pigmented semi-aniline leather in a wide range of colours (at present 42 shades). This leather has largely been left in its natural state. It shows the typical natural characteristics of a leather skin, like insect bites, fine scarred wounds and fattening folds as a sign of its genuineness. Semi-aniline leather needs thorough and regular care.
- Bend leather is high-quality, coated cracked leather. It is dyed thoroughly and equipped with a coloured surface coating, which renders it very hard-wearing and easy to clean.
General Care Instruction
- Do not expose leather to direct sunlight, as this would harm the colour and the leather tends to dry out quickly.
- Ensure that humidity is not too low as dry leather tends to crack. (Please keep the furniture away from radiators).
- Remove dust from the surface regularly by vacuuming or wiping with a damp soft cloth.
- Dab off marks rather quickly with an absorbing cloth (Do not rub!). Possibly, moisten with weak neutral soapy water and rework by dabbing it on over a large area. Wash off with clean, distilled water and dry with a dry cloth. Remaining fat is absorbed into the leather after some time and evaporates.
- We recommend using our leather care set – also standard leather cleaning and care agents may be used - after mark treatment, but also for regular care. This will maintain the elasticity of the leather, freshen up colours and improve or renew the mark protection. (Always test on a less visible location before use!!).
- Never treat leather with aggressive cleaning agents, solvents, wax or shoe polish.
Also, we would like to point out a risk to especially light colours. As the present trend for living spaces selects mostly light and pastel colours, clothing fashion tends often to very dark shades. In this case, the customer must often accept materials which are not colourfast. The colour pigments could possibly, by only one contact, easily be transferred to the furniture covers. In the meantime, many clothes manufacturers point out this risk.
These colour marks cannot be compared with a usual soiling. They are very stubborn and, because of their often unclear chemical composition, cannot be removed any more.
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