World leaders in leather repair training

Transform Your Business with Professional Leather Repair Training

Leather repair is an essential service that continues to grow in demand across a wide range of industries. With over 55% of all leather items, including home furnishings, fashion accessories, handbags, and shoes, requiring maintenance or restoration over time, the market for skilled repair services has never been stronger.

Whether it’s repairing minor scratches or undertaking complete recolouring, leather repair offers businesses the chance to stand out by providing a valuable, in-demand service. It enhances customer satisfaction and provides a cost-effective alternative to replacement, helping clients preserve their cherished items.

At the Leather Repair Company, we’ve been leaders in the leather industry for over 35 years. To date, we’ve delivered over 1,250 training courses and provided more than 40,000 hours of expert tuition both online and in-person. Our expertise has helped train technicians in over 35 countries globally, making us a trusted name worldwide for excellence in leather care and repair education.

Our intensive three-day group training programme is designed to give you hands-on experience in all aspects of leather repair, including fixing scuffs, repairing rips and tears, and mastering recolouring techniques. You’ll also gain valuable skills in precision colour matching, blending, and graining.

With ongoing technical support and mentorship after the course, you’ll leave equipped with the expertise and confidence to tackle leather repair challenges across a variety of industries.

If you're an IDA member, you can use the training towards your certification credits.

Take the step to expand your business offerings and meet the growing demand for leather repair services with the Leather Repair Company.

At LRC we pride ourselves on the exemplary attention to detail of continued development, we don’t just train you on your course, you get lifetime ongoing support/training.

We know how hard it is to be alone without your trainer by your side, so we try to make it as easy as possible so that you can stay relaxed while working, knowing someone is always looking over your shoulder, helping you, guiding you and providing you with the support and confidence you require.

Our support system is here to help you to grow your business and to resolve your issues and problems that you could face, not just carrying out leather repairs, but daily business questions you may have, we can reach out to our resources to gain information to help you with your daily business questions.

You may just want support for the best way to tackle a repair while on-site, we can hook up via our state-of-the-art video training system and do everything with you live, as you work, to help you get through the job, showing you how to carry out this particular type of repair supporting you and guiding you.

We are often putting brand new help videos up in all the private help groups, these videos are extremely useful and help by giving you tricks of the trade, videos that only trained technicians can access, the general public doesn’t get to see these.

Our help groups have technicians from all over the world so you know you’re never alone almost 24/7.

Early access is just that, you gain access to new products to trial and test them before anyone else can, once you have booked a training course and paid, you can gain early access to all our training aids, help groups, and portals.

All help groups, and portals are private, so you know that when you’re asking questions you are talking with highly skilled technicians from all over the world who are on your level, rather than some member of the public who has no training or experience. You are getting the best possible 100% FREE advice from the moment you enter our help groups with like-minded people.

The Wikipedia site of the internet for leather, it’s a site packed full of information to help you understand leather, get to know leather, and repair leather.

The leather wiki site is being constantly added to with new resources of information, a new type of leather tanning, new types of leather, care tips, colour tips, repair help guides. The wiki site has everything you need to know about leather. It covers almost all types of areas of the leather world from tanneries to beam houses, production types of skins that can be used and how to care for them, and where in the world they come from.

Part of your training includes location-based referrals, if we do not have a franchise in the areas you work in we will pass, to trained technicians, referrals where people have contacted LRC HQ with enquiries.

There are no referral fees to pay, it’s all part and parcel of the training course. We will pass to you job referrals in the hope you can pick up the work, in the last few years the jobs we have referred to independent technicians in the UK is almost £15 million worth.