Awesome job, guys! You made your bags look practically like new! You can really tell the love and care taken with these rehabs.
Dooney rehab thread
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If you get a scratch on pebble leather, match the color with a crayon. Melt the crayon tip with a lighter and dab with circular motion into scratch. Buff with soft cloth. It won't cover completely, but will make it almost impossible to see and won't hurt the pebble leather.
Need to add hairspray breaks up ink on fabric, not leather. [emoji4]
Anyone have recommended cleaning products for linings? Most of mine have the cotton checkerboard lining and my usual lining tricks haven't worked that great, especially on ink. I'm excited to dunk my florentine and want to have my product arsenal ready!
In the past I've tried:
-hairspray
-rubbing alcohol
-soilove (helped the most, but not as much as on Coach linings)
-Leather master dye transfer remover
-dawn
Advice and suggestions welcome!
In the past I've tried:
-hairspray
-rubbing alcohol
-soilove (helped the most, but not as much as on Coach linings)
-Leather master dye transfer remover
-dawn
Advice and suggestions welcome!
Have you tried acetone? I wouldn't use it on the Dooney red lining, only the checkerboard lining. I would be very careful not to get any on the leather. You probably already know to pull the lining completely out. I would try a little on a Q tip and see if it breaks up the stain. Sometimes, if the ink stain is too big, disturbing it only makes it worse. Also, you could take it to professional cleaners and see what they recommend. Good luck with your bag. [emoji122]
I haven't tried acetone - thanks for the reminder! I recently got the industrial strength kind so we'll see how that does. Pulling out the lining & the q-tip test is how I try products, too, esp. on ink. I learned that the hard way, haha!
Thanks for the advice [emoji846]
Amodex works great on ink on fabric. It works best on stains that haven't been attempted to be removed before.
Hey! So you know those sad canvas bags that are everywhere for dirt cheap? Well, I bought one just for the strap (to replace a missing one) for $4 and came up with a simple idea for some of the rest of the "leftover" bag. This is the one I bought:
It was in pretty bad shape but again, I just wanted the strap.
I removed the leather strip that's weaved along the top of the purse, cutting at the center of the back of the bag and removed the little leather ties at the bottom sides. And I made this!
Here's the back of it:
It was super easy to do. I just decided how long I wanted the "drop" to be, cut the end of the leather string off and glued it down at the top of the tassel. Then I wrapped the leather ties around to dress it up a little.
Here's the finished product on my bag, along with the strap. [emoji4]
I plan to wash and condition the strap to add more patina to it and darken it to match the new bag a bit better.
I also have plans for the handles, inside pockets and other pieces I removed from the original bag. Will post pix when I get around to repurposing those. Happy rehabbing!
It was in pretty bad shape but again, I just wanted the strap.
I removed the leather strip that's weaved along the top of the purse, cutting at the center of the back of the bag and removed the little leather ties at the bottom sides. And I made this!
Here's the back of it:
It was super easy to do. I just decided how long I wanted the "drop" to be, cut the end of the leather string off and glued it down at the top of the tassel. Then I wrapped the leather ties around to dress it up a little.
Here's the finished product on my bag, along with the strap. [emoji4]
I plan to wash and condition the strap to add more patina to it and darken it to match the new bag a bit better.
I also have plans for the handles, inside pockets and other pieces I removed from the original bag. Will post pix when I get around to repurposing those. Happy rehabbing!
Talking about the tiny D&B logo bag in the first photo, I see them pretty frequently-one or two a month-but I do (what it think is) a LOT of thrift hunting, hitting stores three or four times a week on average. They're not always this style but similar. I usually pass them by because they're out of fashion and usually in very poor shape. I wanted this one for the detachable strap to put on my color splash bag.
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Hi guys...started a Dooney rehab on a sad little Quilted East/West slouch I picked up for 12$ (per Dooney: introduced in 2008. The retail price was $195.00). The leather was so rich and dark Ii couldn't pass it over! Its had one dunk, three coats of Leather CPR, and 1 coat Blackrocks. The ink stain is so bad, broke up a bit during the soak and scrub. I'm not too sure how too address the unraveling leather logo inside the bag? Also, was wondering what people have done to address the wearing fabric corners?? 
