Louis Vuitton - Can my Kit V3 vachetta restore this bag

[key of restoration]

Roger ,need your advice .
By the way what is the cost if I would fly to you place for custom private training include stay and training materials ?
Thank you .

[Roger Koh]

Spots on both bags are most likely mold related stains.

Can you detect moldy smell if you put them into a plastic bag?

Will need d’Mold-3.6 to control or kill these microbial growth.

Vachetta-2.8 is design from water related browning, not tested on such discoloration yet (you may try and let us know the result).

The tarnish stains around the brass button is removed by using d’Tarnish-1.3

By the way the Celine bag leather is “white unfinished leather” that has less of the browning discoloration associated with “Vachetta” leathers.

The last resort to mold related appearance is a covering up with micro-pigment after mold decontamination.

Mold growth is a common occurrence in tropical climate like Singapore.

Services you can include is a “Mold Preventive Care” where leathers are cleaned and anti-microbial treated before they put into storage. The d’Mold-3.6 treatment should able to cover a period of 8 months of preventive mold growth during high warm and humidity season.


See email for reply to your custom training.

Roger Koh
Leather Care Consultant
www.LeatherDoctor.com

[key of restoration]

Roger , as you mention (cover up with micro pigment ) do you mean to touch up the colour?

[Roger Koh]

Remember that unfinished leather derived its color from the tanning agent itself and there is no color add-on to it thereafter. Any color put on to them may make the leather looks fake or unreal. Not correct or appropriate but yet it may seems to be the last option out for cosmetic purposes, need to seek out customer’s approval.

Technically it is a refinishing, not possible to touch-up to match the unfinished leathers and again there are the stitching threads for consideration as well.

d’Tarnish-1.3 is also a possibilities for lightening up the color to try.

[Roger Koh]

>>> Can the Kit V5.mk solve my recent post handbag problem?

d’Mold-3.6 from the Kit V5.mk system is a leather safe fungicide design to kill the growth of mold infestation. Fungicides are chemical compounds or biological organisms used to kill or inhibit fungi or fungal spores. Many of these spores and multi-cellular filaments growth are colored, making the fungus much more obvious to the human eye at this stage in its life cycle.

Mold decontamination may take these sequence of steps:

Restorative Cleaning:
General Soiling - Prep-4.4 > Clean-3.8 > Rinse-3.0.
Body Oil, Grease and Sweat Soiling - Degreaser-2.2 > Rinse-3.0.

Stain Removal:
Vachetta-2.8
d’Tannin-3.8
d’Tarnish-1.3

Fungicide:
d’Mold-3.6

Leather Rejuvenation:
Hydrator-3.3 > Fatliquor-5.0

Protection:
Protector-D

Roger Koh
Leather Care consultant
www.LeatherDoctor.com

[key of restoration]

Hi , Roger
I have successfully use the vachetta 2.8 to clean the Celine bag thank to you .

What is the next step that I can make the appearance of the colour look better .