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With current technology you can now clean leather like cloth.

Most drycleaners and launderers would start drycleaning or wetcleaning their own suedes, leathers and furs if they realized that the techniques they now use in regular drycleaning and laundry are the same that they would use in suede and leather cleaning with the new

technology embodied in the Royal-tone process

This system makes it possible for any drycleaner or wetcleaner to dryclean or wetclean suedes, leathers and furs 90 percent like they now clean cloth items. It is available for all profit-minded cleaners and launderers who want to keep all of the money they collect for suedes, leathers and furs and who want to control the quality and the processing time needed to clean their customers’ items instead of splitting the profits with others.

Chart 1: Cloth vs. leather cleaning comparison analysis summary

To give you a better idea of just how much this technology makes cleaning leather so much like cleaning cloth, we can compare the activities required to do regular cloth cleaning with the activities required to dryclean or wetclean suedes, leathers and furs. A quick comparison will show that nine out of ten of the activities are the same for both regular cloth cleaning and leather cleaning. (See Chart 1.)

Expanding this comparison between regular cleaning procedures and leather and suede cleaning procedures, we see that most of the activities performed for cloth cleaning are the same as those required for leather and suede cleaning.

The few things that are different can be added to your existing knowledge of how to spot, wet clean, drclean and press cloth items. (See Chart 2.)

Chart 2: Cloth vs. leather cleaning comparison analysis detail

So what’s so different?

As you can see, the only activities that are different for leather cleaning are: checking for markings in the skins; spotting with abrasives; not using standard plant steam in spotting and pressing; gluing hems; and dyeing and painting.

As for dyeing and painting, dye fading and loss of leather surface color and shine will not occur as a result of cleaning by this process. Therefore, dyeing as a result of leather cleaning will not be necessary.

The garment the customer brings in for cleaning might already be faded or worn as a result of improper cleaning by another cleaner or normal customer use. Suedes and leathers can be spotted, cleaned and pressed and a re-dyeing service does not have to be offered. However, extra point-of-sale money can be generated by learning re-dyeing techniques and offering it as an extra-charge service to make extra money restoring customer garments that are already faded or worn when brought in.

Cleaners who want to increase their profits by learning how to clean their own suedes, leathers and furs, can expect to do it 90 percent like they do their regular cloth cleaning. The remaining 10 percent of things that are different for leather cleaning can be learned in a two-day leather cleaning training session.