BACK TO BASICS H Natural,neutral and SADDLE LEATHERS!!!
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Oh, how I love this thread!
When my barenia HAC gets back from the spa, I 'll add my naturals to it!
When my barenia HAC gets back from the spa, I 'll add my naturals to it!
Hey there! The bag in B looks like it might be VN...the bag in A has me a bit stumped it's so hard to see the textures due to the lighting... Have a great day!
thanks, ltl! this bag it thick cowhide and very different for VN -- i saddle soaped it to open the pores and then oiled in inside and out just like you would with a new saddle. i used the hermes leather products from their saddlery department.
the biggest difference is that when used on VN the oil and the hermes saddle baum and lait nettoyant don't make the leather any darker -- which has always disappointed me. it does condition them against the weather, though. i've always wished that they would darken it the way they darkened the saddle bag - so next time i have VN i'll use docride's first product, though i'll probably stick with oil for the second step. just because it's my habit and i have it here anyway.
Hey there! The bag in B looks like it might be VN...the bag in A has me a bit stumped it's so hard to see the textures due to the lighting... Have a great day!
Thanks docride! There's also that mysterious dark brown Birkin near the top of the photo... Love these leathers!!!
I saw a lovely barenia belt at Madison Ave. It's the belt that has the 3 hooks. It looked like it's been through a lot though -- maybe lots of rubbing by customers?
oh Dodrice! 23 years old!! I love soft leathers as clemence or swift... but seeing your bags I have to say they are :okay: wow!!That's what a Vache natural looks like with a full patina :o) The bag is a 23 year old Vache Natural HAC 32cm.
I have been reading your thread about care of the leathers, and I can see from your bags that all those cares really work!!! Your bags are beautifull!
hi piaffe! were you the first owner to know: did these 2 VNs start out the same color? i'm thinking the PH will never develop into the same color as the GH and just wondering if other than age, there was a different process/product you used on each or if they started out quite different in shade. they're both just lovely...and here is my 1984 VN 32 HAC GH as compared to a VN 1998 PH 35 Birkin:
(very different aging on the leather!)
bump. i am new to hermes and just made my first purchase in the shape of a cashmere shawl (i just love it). it is a slippery slope as you all know... now i want a birkin 
i am vintage-antique-ethnic-sorta gal. i don't like tip-toe-ing around my bags, and just loooove the look and feel of leathers with good shinny dark patina. so when i came across this thread it feels like home immediately, as foreign as i am with hermes and birkins in general
may i ask, for someone like me, would you recommend VN or barenia, HAC or birkin? (or should this question be a new thread?)
i am vintage-antique-ethnic-sorta gal. i don't like tip-toe-ing around my bags, and just loooove the look and feel of leathers with good shinny dark patina. so when i came across this thread it feels like home immediately, as foreign as i am with hermes and birkins in general
may i ask, for someone like me, would you recommend VN or barenia, HAC or birkin? (or should this question be a new thread?)
