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#25,591
Okay, ladies, I need some help with a bag that is not a Coach. It's a Kate Spade quilted cow leather Gold Coast Maryanne. I've looked in the forum in various places for cleaning quilted leather and have found some stuff on lamb skin... But it's not been helpful for the problem I'm having. The bag is FLAT, super misshapen, so I want to dunk it to reshape it, but I don't know if that's a good idea with quilted leather. Just by comparison, y'all are the best rehabbers, no offense to other brand forums--it just seems like vintage Coach lovers love to rehab. Probably because we have to. Lol. So I thought maybe someone here has some experience with quilted leather bags? If it's inappropriate to ask this here, feel free to redirect me in no uncertain terms to the correct forum :D
 
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#25,592
Momscoach said:
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I am so excited to try this. I have a few vintage bags with ballpoint pen marks inside. (To be honest this makes me nuts! Ladies, cap your pens or use a zippered case!) To clarify, you achieved this with an emery board (looks like the fine side) and not a metal nail file? Please let me know if you did something else. Thank you so much!
 
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Crystalcoach said:
Okay, ladies, I need some help with a bag that is not a Coach. It's a Kate Spade quilted cow leather Gold Coast Maryanne. I've looked in the forum in various places for cleaning quilted leather and have found some stuff on lamb skin... But it's not been helpful for the problem I'm having. The bag is FLAT, super misshapen, so I want to dunk it to reshape it, but I don't know if that's a good idea with quilted leather. Just by comparison, y'all are the best rehabbers, no offense to other brand forums--it just seems like vintage Coach lovers love to rehab. Probably because we have to. Lol. So I thought maybe someone here has some experience with quilted leather bags? If it's inappropriate to ask this here, feel free to redirect me in no uncertain terms to the correct forum :biggrin:
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It isn't inappropriate to ask here, IMO. This is the most active rehab thread that I know of. If it isn't vintage Coach I'm always leery to dunk. Some brands use glues that melt and stain if the bag gets wet. I think the safest thing to do is stuff it and hang it in a steamy bathroom. The heat and steam should help reshape it without having to dunk. You may have to do it over the course of several days and leave the stuffing in during that time. You could also try stuffing it with towels hot from the dryer. Or using a hairdryer to heat it up after it is stuffed.
 
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Morgan_Bellini said:
Oh, me too!! I get so twitchy when I see ladies sticking pens in their bags. So many beautiful bags ruined by ink, what a shame!
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I never even use pens except to endorse a check that has been written to me. In that case I borrow one somewhere. Ever since college when I realized how much I needed to erase, I only ever use pencils. That goes for when I am at work too.
 
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Morgan_Bellini said:
Oh, me too!! I get so twitchy when I see ladies sticking pens in their bags. So many beautiful bags ruined by ink, what a shame!
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artax two said:
I never even use pens except to endorse a check that has been written to me. In that case I borrow one somewhere. Ever since college when I realized how much I needed to erase, I only ever use pencils. That goes for when I am at work too.
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I never carry pens either. Fortunately for handbag interiors, digital devices are replacing pens and pencils.
 
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Roro said:
I am so excited to try this. I have a few vintage bags with ballpoint pen marks inside. (To be honest this makes me nuts! Ladies, cap your pens or use a zippered case!) To clarify, you achieved this with an emery board (looks like the fine side) and not a metal nail file? Please let me know if you did something else. Thank you so much!
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Yes, regular emery board. I think a metal file is more likely to cut through the suede.
 
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whateve said:
It isn't inappropriate to ask here, IMO. This is the most active rehab thread that I know of. If it isn't vintage Coach I'm always leery to dunk. Some brands use glues that melt and stain if the bag gets wet. I think the safest thing to do is stuff it and hang it in a steamy bathroom. The heat and steam should help reshape it without having to dunk. You may have to do it over the course of several days and leave the stuffing in during that time. You could also try stuffing it with towels hot from the dryer. Or using a hairdryer to heat it up after it is stuffed.
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Fantastic! Thank you! I'll try those things. :)

Yeah, I have dunked some other brands, new and old, and by far vintage Coach always works whereas with others it's kinda a gamble. This one has a cream colored lining too, which I'd worry about being stained if I dunked it. No wonder all the bags I end up really falling in love with and keeping are either vintage Coach or handmade full grain leather bags. They're near eternal. :D

As always, so very much appreciated!
 
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Speaking of vintage Coach, here's a rehab I did a while ago. I think a pen or permanent marker had exploded on it. If it wasn't navy blue, I don't think it would have turned out so well. I washed it 3 times interspersed with acetone treatment on the effected areas. Then a ton of leather CPR and a once over with Obenaufs LP. In certain lights you can still see a little remnant of one ink spot that was particularly bad, but it's hardly visible. In love with this bag now! The super dark navy is such a cool color. I thought it was black before I started working on it.
 

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