Please view the Cleaning Cautions section before proceeding. Remember this information is a suggestion and you proceed at your own risk.
The skin of any animal, including snake and fish species, can be used to make leather. The characteristics of leather are dependent on the animal’s skin type and the processing treatment, which will determine the cleaning steps. Remember all leather is affected by sunlight and water. When in doubt don’t clean until you research further.
Biggest challenge for leather buttons is finding methods that don’t dry and protect the leather. Some products use petroleum and other chemicals that could affect dyes, paints and even the leather itself.
Leather is made from different animals including bovine, aquatic animals including fish and seals, snakes, alligator, crocodile, ostrich, horse and others. We will cover snakeskin in this guide, but bolvine and fish skin will be in separate guides.
SNAKESKIN leather is a type of leather made from the hide of different species of dead snakes.