Blog posts on leather & vinyl from a working upholsterer’s bench.
- How to look after a leather sofa
Which finish you have decides everything, and there is a two-minute test that tells you. The routine that keeps leather alive for decades, and the everyday products that quietly destroy it. - Why does leather peel?
Real leather does not peel. What peels is bonded leather or a polyurethane coating — how to tell which you have, why it fails, and what can actually be repaired.