HL-EXO-02
Exotic Leather Services
Crocodile, python and ostrich, in specialist hands.
Crocodile, python and ostrich do not behave like calfskin, and they are not treated like it. Scales are repaired and re-laid, colour is rebuilt in thin passes rather than covered over, and the skin is conditioned so it keeps moving the way it should.
TREATMENTS IN DETAIL
Everything we can do for this kind of piece, and what each step involves.
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CrocodileScale-by-scale work on the one skin that shows every shortcut — cleaned, fed and refinished.
PythonLifted and curling scales laid back down and secured before any colour goes near the skin.
OstrichThe quill pattern cleaned without flattening it — the texture is the piece, and it is easily lost.
Scale repairMissing or split scales rebuilt and blended so the repair disappears into the pattern.
Colour restorationColour rebuilt in thin passes rather than covered over, so the skin keeps its depth.
ConditioningFed until the skin moves again — a dried exotic cracks along the scale lines and cannot be undone.
Edge rebuildWorn edges rebuilt to the original profile, then sealed against the humidity that took them.