Repair and Restoration

At keep-studio we not only create new heirloom bags and leather goods but we also encourage you to keep your existing products out of the landfill and in daily use. We are more than happy to repair and renovate your beloved items, be they designer, vintage.

We suggest having items repaired or restored promptly upon signs of wear and strongly discourage attempting repairs at home, particularly with super glue, as it can complicate the job.

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Examples of repairs and restoration undertaken -

1960's Vegetable Tanned Leather Bag

Before

  • Dry, hard leather with rotten stitching 

After

  • Bag was carefully taken apart. 
  • Deep clean and leather nourished using oils and balms.
  • Saddle stitched back together.

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Broken Buckle Replace

Before 

  • Broken Buckle. 
  • Hook buckle had snapped in half. 

After

  • New Buckle 
  • Retained the metal keeper and sourced a buckle to match colour and finish. 
  • Hand stitched back together as original.

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YSL Delaminated Strap Repair, Deep Clean and Recolour 

YSL white leather bag with horn handle

  • Straps had delaminated and leather was worn and in need of re-colour.
  • Lining in need of deep clean.
  • Horn handle was dehydrated and in need of deep clean. 

Before

After

  • Deep clean inside and out.
  • Straps reinforced, glued and edge stained.
  • Holes in binding filled with leather filler.
  • A complete repaint, colour matched to original colour.
  • Horn looking lovely and nourished

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All Saints Jacket - Torn and Faded - Recolour and Repair 

All Saints well loved biker jacket was this customer's favourite 
It had been left on the parcel shelf of her car on numerous occasions so was faded and dry. There were a few holes on the right shoulder area probably from friction from a bag strap.

Before

  • The holes were repaired, the leather recoloured and a leather balm added all over to condition the leather.
    Ready for some new adventures 

After

 

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Bag Lining Replacement 

The lining had disintegrated in this bag and some of the stitching was coming apart. 

  • New canvas lining made and sewn in
  • Straps and seams repaired 

Before

After

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Breifcase handle - New rolled handle made all over leather renovation

Before

After

  • Made a pattern from the broken handle 
  • Dyed the veg tanned leather to match 
  • Hand stitched the leather filled rolled handles
  • Copper rivets 
  • All stitching tightened and reinforced
  • Dry leather revived with 5 layers of balm

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Gucci Strap Repair

Strap loop had torn out from strap.

  • Cut off loop and remade another
  • Unpicked stitching on strap and fed new loop in.
  • Replaced stitching 

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LV Strap Prepair

Louis Vuitton bag loop had torn on strap attachment 

Before

After

  • Removed broken loop
  • Made replacement from Natural Vachetta leather -as original 
  • Reinforced loop
  • Unpicked stitching down the  bag
  • Fitted new loop into position
  • Hand stitched in place using matching yellow linen thread

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Coach Bag clasp 

Before & After                                                  

  •    Gained access to back of metal bag clasp through lining and reattached the clasp screws

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Guitar Case Handle Repair

The case was made form PVC/Vegan/Faux Leather.
As the case was made for the guitar the customer really didn't want to throw it away but the handle had worn so badly it was really uncomfortable to hold. The material had cracked and the foam pad was starting to degrade and become sticky!

Before

After

  • We removed all of the PVC and foam material, but retained the nylon rope
  • The rope was wrapped in thinned down veg tanned leather 
  • We then wrapped the centre section of the rope in 100% wool felt for padding
  • A contoured handle was cut from 2mm beg tanned leather and saddle stitched over, creating a soft, comfortable mouldable handle, which will get better with age and use

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Belt Strap Replacement 

 

Genuine leather is the middle part of the leather which has no top/ grain side so is coated in Plastic. This degrades and delaminates over time and so renders the product useless. Avoid '100% Genuine leather' at all costs.

After

All of our leather belts are made from 3.5mm Vegetable tanned leather- unless other weight is requested.

 

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Woven bag handles replaced 

Before

Customers dog ate the handles of this lovely woven bag, so she hadn't been able to use it for three years. Luckily she didn't throw it away as we were able to fix it for her. 

After

  • Deconstructed rolled handles to replace the original woven ones 

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WW2 Sheepskin jacket repair 

A family heirloom in need of some TLC
Multiple rips and tabs missing, along with a few old repairs that needed upgrading.

Before

After

  • Blind stitched the rips back together
  • Remade belt loops that had previously been replace

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Pocket flap lining to prevent curling

Customer loved this bag but the curling pockets and strap were really off putting.

Before

After

  • Lined the pocket flap in thinned down veg tanned leather
  • Hand stitched the pocket lining in place
  • Stitched down the strap to the magnet to stop it curling 

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Watch Strap Repair

Customer had looked everywhere to replace this very unique watch strap. 

  • Repaired by making some new strap loops.

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Many of the services we offer have a huge variety in complexity, so prices below represent a approximate price.

For a more accurate quote please contact us and provide photographs, clearly showing areas in need of attention. 

 

Deep Clean

£70

Repair stitching

£35 < 10cm, £55 >10cm

Re-edging 

£80

Bag Strap gluing / stitching 

£50

Bag strap hardware

£50

Strap adjustment 

£20

Zipper replacement 

£60 <30cm,  £80 > 30cm

Tears -  

Small < 5cm-£50

 Medium < 10cm - £75

 Large > 10cm - £100

Colour restoration

£120

Colour change

£250

Lining replacement 

£300 leather

£150 fabric

Piping repair

£150 

Belt shortening

£20

Belt buckle additional holes 

£5