Restoration Training vs. Leather Craft Training
These programmes develop different professional skills. HBS Restoration Training focuses primarily on restoring the condition and appearance of a handbag, while Leather Craft Training goes deeper into the construction of the bag and the techniques required for advanced structural repair and reconstruction.
HBS Professional Restoration Training
Advanced Handbag Repair & Leather Craft Training
Focuses on professional restoration processes including specialist cleaning, stain treatment, colour restoration and related techniques designed to restore the condition and appearance of the handbag while retaining its original construction wherever appropriate.
Focuses on understanding how handbags are constructed and applying leather-craft techniques to advanced repairs. Students learn techniques that may involve opening or dismantling components, creating patterns, replacing damaged leather or linings, repairing structural elements and professionally reconstructing the bag.
PRACTICAL TRAINING AT HBS
Advanced Handbag Repair in Practice
HBS Leather Craft Training is highly practical and focuses on the construction and repair techniques used in advanced handbag restoration.
Students work through real repair processes under instructor guidance, learning how bags are constructed, how components can be safely dismantled where required, and how damaged structural elements can be repaired, replaced and professionally reconstructed.
Training includes practical work across leather replacement, linings, zippers, structural repairs, hand and machine sewing, reshaping and other advanced repair techniques.
Learn the construction behind the restoration.
COURSE
Advanced Handbag Repair & Leather Craft Training
DURATION
4 Days
Minimum 6 hours practical training per day
COURSE FEE
69,000 THB
LOCATION
HBS Training Centre — Bangkok, Thailand
WHAT IS INCLUDED
• Professional tuition
• Certification
• Leather Craft / Repair Pack
• Training bags and materials
• Post-training technical support
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
The programme combines handbag construction knowledge with advanced practical repair techniques, giving students a deeper understanding of how luxury handbags are constructed, dismantled, repaired and professionally reconstructed.
• Luxury leather characteristics and leather identification
• Basic bag design and construction principles
• Creating patterns for lining repair and replacement
• Understanding different types of zippers
• Zipper installation, repair and replacement
• Rivet removal, modification and reuse techniques
• Bag reshaping techniques
• Materials used for structural reshaping
• Vachetta / cowhide replacement techniques
• Creating professional edge lines on cowhide
• Professional hand-stitching techniques
• Practical leather sewing machine techniques
• Using specialist sewing machinery
• Using leather skiving / peeling equipment
INCLUDED WITH YOUR TRAINING
Leather Craft / Repair Pack
Students receive a specialist Leather Craft / Repair Pack as part of the course, providing essential tools and materials used during practical training and for continued professional repair work after completing the programme.
Training bags and materials used for practical exercises are also included during the programme.
Practical training supported by the tools and materials needed to put those techniques into practice.