I love this product for washing vintage wool and cashmere sweaters! You can choose from various realistic and beautiful scents (my favorite is lavender, followed closely by grapefruit) or use the unscented.

Here is a steamer your great grandchildren will be able to use without the slightest hiccup. It is extremely well made in the U.S. I could marry a Jiffy steamer I love them so much.

This is my favorite odor remover. You can purchase it here, and read about it in my blog here.

Leather can and should be cleaned and conditioned. I like Cadillac Leather Lotion, which helps to preserve leather, reptile skins, and also imitation leather surfaces. You can use it on your shoes, bags, and even jackets.

Water-based ink stains can be soaked out with liquid laundry detergent. Ballpoint and felt tip pen marks sometimes respond to isopropyl alcohol alone, which you can apply to the stain with a cotton swab. For me, Carbona’s ink remover (Stain Devils #3) is a good purchase, even working to remove old ink marks in leather purses.

Color catchers are sheets that are manufactured to attract and form a chemical bond with loose dyes in water while washing. I have found these useful (but not flawless) for machine washing, and even for hand washing. 

When you need to pick a knit, you need a knit picker! This small tool (and sometimes the little things are the biggest help!) can be pushed through the back of a snagged knit to easily and safely pull the snag to the inside. Don't cut those snags or you may lose a lot more than you bargained for!

This is a glue that has a bit of flexibility so it works remarkably well for repairing rubber, canvas and leather parts of shoes.

A clothes brush can't pull every last thing (including part of the fabric) off your clothing like a tape roller, but it is a sustainable, easy to use, and rather beautiful alternative. I do have a sticky roller for some things, but I love using a brush for most things. This one is boar bristle (the best!) and made in Philadelphia.

To be truthful, I am not sure if I would be able to discern some fabrics with any accuracy if it weren’t for this tool, a linen tester. Highly recommended if you want to know the thread count of a fabric, as well as magnify it.

I'm always so happy to find these pinned or sewn in vintage dresses because they have saved a great dress from wear, staining and odors. Kleinert's is the original, always made in the U.S. Or you can make some of your own using a pattern and template from PerfectLittlePackage.