I just came back from visiting that site, I’ve seen it before and I thought it was bizarre and weird. What’s with the convoluted site design that seems to be so popular? If you force visitors to think just to navigate your site, they’ll split. The site is very download heavy, navigation is a mystery, it’s ridiculous. So Mr love raw meat, if you come back here to check on your comment, it’s gone but I have a tip for you: redo your site. A lot of people are going to delete your comments based on your url address alone. You may be right and we may be wrong but you’ll never be right if no one sees your site, so you pick.

I’d amend the pressing part tho…if you have an iron with a teflon plate (separate thingy you buy) you can probably press from top side.

There’s no guarantee with washing leather. Each piece should be considered an experiment unless it’s a hide that was designed to be washed. Now that said, I’ve had pretty good results with washing just about any kind of suede. The results with grain have been less successful (by that I mean I’ve often had to recondition the leather with lotion to get a shine). The iffiest part of washing hides is exactly that- hides. If you’re washing more than one hide for a project, you may notice some color variations btwn the two hides and may have to plan your piecing of the project a bit more intently than usual.

About drying…if you can, letting it air dry is best but low temp dryer works. Also, after your hides are dry, you may have to stretch them a bit to even out the ripples.

are you saying that I can use leather as trim, appliques, etc on cotton, silk and linen fabric and they’ll all come through the wash ok?

Maybe, maybe not. Usually yes tho. Still, you’ll have to prewash your hide before you go and make it into something. If it doesn’t survive the first wash, then at least you know before you went and made it into a product. Now, if you are making something that will be washed a lot, you’ll need the specialty leather made for washing. While you can wash leather, that doesn’t mean you should wash it often. If it is something that will be washed often, I’d stick with suede. Try pig suede. Pig suede is low cost (@$1.65 a sq ft, much less expensive than ultrasuede) and fairly stable. Also, you can sew pig on a home machine and any industrial dressmaker machine.

The tag says to turn it inside out, machine wash cold using woolite, tumble dry low, do not hang dry, do not spot clean, iron on reverse side as needed or use cotton cloth under iron to press the suede directly, for optimal washing performance, do not dry clean.

If I ever wash it, I will let you know how it goes.

But I wasn’t able to find anything else at all.