How To Clean Vintage White Kid Gloves

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Cleaning Kid Gloves

• Thread starter MissHannah
• First date Feb seven, 2008

• #1

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Any thoughts? I'm not sure if they are actual kid leather simply they are very very soft fine leather and lined. They are cream so they become very mucky and they accuse me £twenty at the dry cleaners!

• #two

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Are these what are sometimes chosen "courtroom" or "opera" gloves? Dress gloves in "white" (really running from pale foam to yellow)...normally made from kidskin doeskin or similar. Usually unlined though.

If so these are usually washable, and are sometimes even marked as such inside. Merely non always! It depends on the precise leather. If it is adequately stretchy and soft its probably OK but don't hold me responsible! Hand wash or utilize wool/gentle cycle with a non Ph liquid like Persil Silk and Wool or Lexol leather cleaner. Drip dry without estrus. Maybe vesture to cease off when about dry.

Proficient luck!

• #3

My 1912 laundry textbook (source of almost all my knowledge of cleaning vintage stuff) says to use "benzoline" (no idea what that is, they don't explicate further). They provide detailed instructions for the actual cleaning which I tin can mail if you need/want. (Information technology involves sticking the handle of a wooden spoon in each of the fingers, amidst other things!)

• #four

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I've an thought benzoline information technology is an old synonym for benzol....

I would accept thought naptha or petrol would have similar properties, these are what people have used in the past for habitation dry-cleaning.

But as I said, there's a good chance they can be washed. The main thing to watch for if washing is heat...think of leather as meat, heat cooks it. So you have to use cold or lukewarm h2o and let dry out naturally.

A lot of these old soft "chamois" fashion clothes gloves are marked as washable, and I have done a few with practiced results. On the other hand I washed one pair (which I retrieve were buckskin, thicker and heavier than the usual doe or child) and they dried right out. And being unfinished and cream coloured y'all tin't treat them with a leather dressing to compensate.

They tell me life is all virtually taking chances....

• #5

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Thanks for the advice people. I'm a little scared to wash them in example they do dry or shrink. Would information technology be worth buying a dwelling house dry-cleaning kit? I've never bought ane earlier so I don't know what they include.

• #6

If the gloves aren't stained or securely soiled, here's a prophylactic, uncomplicated method that I've come up with for cleaning lightly soiled kid gloves (works on cloth gloves, also).

Fine art stores sell eraser pads for cleaning drawings (I use them for cleaning vintage prints). They're porous cloth bags about ii"x3" that are filled with ground-up artgum eraser. Cut the bag open and dump the ground eraser into a big mixing basin. Put your gloves on and "launder your hands" in the eraser pulverisation, rubbing the soiled spots well. Castor off the eraser powder and yous've got make clean gloves. You tin can salvage the eraser pulverization in a jar or baggie and use it over and over.

If this works for you, y'all might desire to mail this method in the Pulverization Room for the benefit of all the other glove wearers.

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