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Wash the fish skin on your cap

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Wash the fish skin on your cap

Fish skin is a residual material from the food industry. Wilgart use fish skin for small details in our cap design. We like to use skins from salmon and catfish, tanned in Iceland, for design details around our caps.

Material properties of the fish skin

Fish-skin is made from salmon and wolffish caught and tanned on Iceland. The skin offers a sustainable alternative to exotic leathers. Fish skin is an excess material from food production. The skin offers a sustainable alternative to exotic leather and skins. Fish skin is an upcycled biproduct from the food industry.

Positive

  • Exclusive and unique
  • Refined look
  • Very durable
  • Flexible and soft

Negative

  • Reacts strongly to sunlight – bleaching and softening
  • Needs regular caretaking with ex. leathergrease

Salmon skins and wolffish are luxurious and very durable types of leather. Each skin is from Icelandic caught fish, and the dyeing makes each leather unique, which makes the caps unique. The details that Wilgart sews on the shade of the cap are very resistant to use, and the skin can be cleaned with a damp cloth or sponge if necessary.

Never use any detergents, also if you are cleaning the whole cap. Any soap can damage the colors of the fish skin. You can treat the fish skin cap detail like any other type of leather. Soap can damage the color of the fish skin. Instead, you can treat the fish skin detail like any other type of skin. For example, you can give the leather grease to maintain flexibility, as well as the dirt and water-repellent properties of leather. Remember that the leather grease will give the color a darker tone.

Guide to treat fish leather

  • Never use any detergents
  • Cleaned with a damp cloth
  • You can treat the fish skin cap detail like any other type of leather.

Never dry near a heating device.

Never use soap.

Cap tools

Here you can see a small selection of cap tools and accessories that Wilgart offer. You can see all the products under: Accessories

Read more about cleaning and cleaning the hat after choice of materials on the Washing & maintenance of caps page

Materials in caps

Watch videos and explore how to wash and maintain your cap. Read more here below.

Wool & Tweed

How to wash a woolen cap. Washing and cleaning of baseball cap, flatcap, sixpence, eightpiece or drivers cap, which is made in sheep wool or genuine Harris Tweed cloths.

Cotton

Learn more about how to wash a cap sewn in a cotton fabric. Washing and cleaning a baseball cap, flatcap, sixpence, eightpiece or a sailorcap of cotton. Washing and cleaning the flatcap, sixpence, eightpiece, basecap or sailorcap in 100% cotton or lined blend with cotton.

Wax cotton / Oilskin

A complete guide to properly washing headwear. How to wash and maintain your oilskin cap or hat. Hunting caps like flatcaps and basecaps in waxed cotton should be treated and washed properly.

Linen

Watch videos on how to maintain a cap made of a linen material. Washing and cleaning the baseball cap, flatcap, sixpence, eightpiece or newsboy cap made in linen fabric.

Silk

Silk is an exclusive item to use for clothing and caps. The silk has an exclusive look and exquisite features that increase comfort. Unfortunately, silk caps are more cumbersome to clean than hats in other natural fibers.

Cashmere

The lightness, insulating ability, softness and reflection of cashmere underline its undisputed top position among luxury caps. Although cashmere wool requires a gentler handling, it has the kings status in the capmaker's workshop.

Smoothskin leather

Fur products and leather caps need the right cleanse and maintenance. Leather caps best preserve the qualities of the skin with regular treatment using leather grease. Leather caps best preserve the qualities of the skin with regular treatment using leather grease.

Suede leather

Suede is made from the underside of an animal skin. It is characterized by a rough, dry but soft surface and thus a matte appearance. Suede should be brushed regularly and kept away from soap.

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