Any skin can be cleaned in this manner. I have cleaned zebra skin, sheepskin, rabbit, bearskin, tiger and many others.
Gotta do this VLM for sure!!
A 6 x 6 made of dozens of pieces of skins sewn together to make a rug.
To complicate matters, a bunch of dog urine deposits and 2 dog poop deposits.
Bac-Out to the rescue!!
Spray it on, gently agitate, towel up.
Then apply alcohol to the deposit areas when finished.
Then spray on alcohol all over, and a light mist of neutral pH detergent, towel off, hang to dry.
Check the back for tears or areas where sewn threads have broken and sew them back with waxed linen carpet thread.
And yeah, I DO know how to charge for these. A BUNCH!!
Cleaning a 6 x 6 Llama Skin rug.
Cleaning system- a quart bottle with a trigger sprayer, filled with Bi-O-Kleen products Bonnet Cleaner, diluted 2 ounces of concentrate, fill with water.
Spray lightly, just enough to dampen about 2 feet from the end, half way across. Wipe the towel in 1 direction, turn the towel for a clean surface, wipe at 90 degrees to the first direction.
Looking at it from this angle, the left half is cleaned as far down as the folded towel. Right half not yet done.
Same rug, same time, looking from opposite end.
Closeup of cleaned area on right, uncleaned area on left.
Another angle, looking across the uncleaned area near the camera, cleaned area on far side.
Uncleaned area on right, cleaned area on left.
Closeup of towel, dirt removed from rug.
Cleaned area on right, half way across, as far down as the top of the towel. No brush used in this case.
Note the various pieces of skin's length of hairs. This is not sheared off, it is from parts of the skin where the hairs length and fineness vary to make a pattern.
Finished cleaning the first half.
Finished cleaning the entire thing.
With this system, the skin does not get wet or even damp at all.
So there is no possibility of shrinkage, or other damage to the skins.
While the face is not WET, it is damp, and hung up to dry.
Detail of back of rug, ahowing the many pieces of skin sewn together to make a rug.
Detail of area where original stitching had broken, and I sewed it together. Original stitching had actually torn the delicate skin and needed coarser stitching for more strength to keep from tearing again.
All finished, ready to roll up and deliver.
