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ith new technology, you can dryclean leather like cloth! Most drycleaners and launderers would dryclean or wetclean their own suedes, leathers and furs if they realized that the techniques they now use in regular drycleaning and laundry are the same techniques they would use in suede and leather cleaning when it is done by the new technology embodied in the modern Royaltone process developed by the author.

This system for drycleaning and wetcleaning suede, leather and fur is available for all profit-minded drycleaners and launderers who wish to keep all

of the money they collect on their own suedes, leathers and furs and who also want to control the quality and the processing time needed to clean their own suedes and leathers, while keeping all the profits!

To give you a better idea of just how this technology makes cleaning leather so much like cleaning cloth, we need only to compare the activities required to do regular cloth cleaning with the activities required to dryclean or wetclean suedes, leathers and furs by this process.

A quick comparison (See Chart 1) will show that 9 out of 10 of the activities are the same for both regular cloth cleaning and new technology for leather cleaning.

Expanding this Comparison between regular cleaning procedures and modern leather and suede cleaning procedures shows that most activities performed for cloth cleaning are the same as those required for leather and suede cleaning. The few things that are new can be added to your knowledge of how to spot, wetclean, dryclean and press cloth items. (See Chart 2).

So what’s so different?

As you can readily see, the only activities that are different for leather cleaning are: checking for markings in the skins; spotting with abrasives; not using 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 the Royaltone 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 customer use. Redyeing can be offered as an extra charge service to make extra money by restoring a customer’s garment that is faded or worn when it is brought in.

• Checking for markings.

• Spotting with abrasives.

• Gluing hems.

• Dyeing and painting.

Cleaners who want to increase their profits by cleaning their own suedes, leathers and furs can do it almost exactly like they do their regular cleaning. The few activities that are different for leather cleaning can be learned in the two-day leather training sessions taught by the author at his Royaltone Leather Cleaning School.