SoleHeeled offers convenient and affordable Louis Vuitton wallet repairs by Australia’s best craftsmen, with free shipping to your door. This case study outlines how we recently repaired a customer’s Louis Vuitton wallet.
The wallet
The Damier Ebène canvas on this Louis Vuitton wallet was tearing around the edges, mainly where the wallet bends, leaving exposed the red inner and the outer canvas to further damage. When the customer reached out to us for a free diagnosis/quote, we offered to stitch leather patches in place in order to protect the canvas where it had torn and become weak.
Unfortunately, the type of canvas used on Louis Vuitton wallets, bags and other items often tears and cracks with age — especially around those areas where the canvas usually bends. While this is preventable with regular care and maintenance of the canvas, this sort of damage is generally difficult to repair cleanly. Most solutions involve sealing the canvas with a filler (thus interrupting the canvas’ pattern) or covering the tears with leather patches. These leather patches are clearly visible, and therefore affect the item’s appearance, but they can be crafted and installed in a discrete manner and have the added benefit of reinforcing the canvas against further damage.
Tear repair
We started off by measuring the torn areas on the canvas. We then cut pieces of thin, semi-circular leather and carefully stitched them into place around the main bend in the wallet.
Have a Louis Vuitton wallet needing repair or restoration?
Our experienced craftsmen have been trusted by not only generations of Australians but also local and international brands (including Gucci, Versace and Canali) with the repair and restoration of luxury designer wallets since 1955. If you have a beloved Louis Vuitton wallet in need of repair or restoration, ask us for a free diagnosis/quote by completing our online order form — where you can upload photos of the wallet and let us know exactly what you would like done to it, or let us advise you on what the wallet needs based on the photos.
SoleHeeled serves all of Australia through its free 2-way shipping service:
Order online: Answer a few questions to get an instant quote and complete your order.
Send your wallet: Drop your wallet off at a local post office for free packaging and shipping to us.
We repair: A team of experienced craftsmen will carefully repair your wallet.
We return: We'll deliver your repaired wallet to you, wherever you are in Australia.
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