Love Your Clothes | Leather Care and Restoration workshop

Love Your Clothes: Repair. Restore. Rewear. series | Learn about leather care and restoration to bring your leather items back to life! This workshop is a part of our Love Your Clothes: Repair. Restore. Rewear. series, a collection of community workshops designed to help people extend the life of their clothing through repair, restoration and creative renewal. Throughout the series, you'll learn practical skills to reduce textile waste and get more wear from the items you already own. The series wraps up with the Great Global Mend event, bringing the community together to celebrate mending, repair and keeping textiles in use for longer. Hosted by Josephine from Skip Hop Fox Join us for an engaging, hands-on workshop that revives the valuable but often forgotten skill of caring for leather goods. Designed for adults of all experience levels, this workshop will give you the knowledge, confidence and practical skills to care for your leather items and help them last for years to come. Wherever possible, materials are sourced, reused or repurposed to reflect the workshop's sustainability values. Why Leather Care? In an era of fast consumption and disposable products, caring for what we already own is one of the simplest ways to reduce waste. Well-made leather goods can last a lifetime and are often passed down through generations. By preserving and maintaining these items, we honour the resources used to create them and build more mindful consumption habits. What You'll Learn: 👜 How to identify genuine leather and distinguish it from imitation materials 👜 Why leather is a durable natural material worth caring for 👜 Basic leather cleaning, conditioning and maintenance techniques 👜 The environmental benefits of repair, reuse and extending product life 👜 How leather care supports a more circular economy What's Included: ✔ A 20-minute presentation exploring leather, sustainability and circular economy principles ✔ A hands-on practical session restoring a leather item you've brought from home ✔ Expert guidance and demonstrations from Skip Hop Fox ✔ A welcoming and inclusive environment that encourages learning, conversation and community connection What to Bring: 👞 A leather item you'd like to care for, such as a bag, wallet, belt, jacket or pair of shoes ✨ Curiosity and a willingness to learn a valuable life skill Rediscover the art of leather care and learn how simple acts of repair and maintenance can help reduce waste, preserve cherished belongings and create a more sustainable future.