Re: [h-cost] Re: h-costume Digest, Vol 4, Issue 716
Fran, I don't know if this will be suitable for your use, but I think you would have more reliable results if you dulled down the entire purse with one color of dye, say a medium brown, than trying to overdye two separate areas. If the dye you use is a red-brown, than you'll get the duller, greyer green, and the deeper but muted red you were looking for (iirc). Ann in CT > If you are dyeing the same item two different colors > in different areas, > do you use masking tape or something to protect the > edges of one color > when you are doing another? Like masking off the > edges of a wall when > you paint the molding another color? > > Fran __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: h-costume Digest, Vol 4, Issue 716
Hi Fran, I'm pretty sure that we used to use contact cement to mask off areas of the leather, then rubbed it off. I might be wrong though, it was 36 years ago. If you try it, try it on an inconspicuous area first before you use it on the whole purse. Kitty Lavolta Press wrote: Thanks very much for your help. Not having planned to take up leather dyeing, and therefore not having researched it, I was not aware that I had to deglaze the purse, dye it, then reglaze. If you are dyeing the same item two different colors in different areas, do you use masking tape or something to protect the edges of one color when you are doing another? Like masking off the edges of a wall when you paint the molding another color? Thanks a lot, Fran Lavolta Press ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: h-costume Digest, Vol 4, Issue 716
Thanks very much for your help. Not having planned to take up leather dyeing, and therefore not having researched it, I was not aware that I had to deglaze the purse, dye it, then reglaze. If you are dyeing the same item two different colors in different areas, do you use masking tape or something to protect the edges of one color when you are doing another? Like masking off the edges of a wall when you paint the molding another color? Thanks a lot, Fran Lavolta Press http://www.lavoltapress.com Pierre & Sandy Pettinger wrote: Fran, Also try: www.tandyleather.com They are a U.S. company - the cosplay site is Canadian, so shipping might be an issue (I'm assuming you're in the U.S.). ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
