Help, my dyeing is dying!!!!

jimh0220

jimh0220

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OK, so I bought dye and some daubers from Tandy to dye some leather. I applied it like I remember from 7th grade art class (a gazillion years ago). When I did, it was almost as thick as paint, and looked like a bad painting job instead of a dyeing job. Should I be thinning the dye, of am I using the wrong product, ooooooorrrrr....?

For the love of Pete, Help!!!!!!
 
Are you soaking the leather in water before you start the dyeing process? If you aren't, soaking the leather will help in getting better penetration of the dye into he leather.
 
Post a picture of what you're using. Once we know what you're using we'll be able to give you some pointers :).
 
Eco-Flo Cova Color is a water based, low V.O.C., acrylic paints for use on natural veg-tanned tooling leather. Colors are opaque when used full strength, but may be thinned with water to reduce intensity. If enough water is added, Cova Colors will become very transparent and can be used as a "wash" to tint large or small areas. Colors may be mixed to form many different hues.

Hmmmm....

Excuse me now whilst I go pull my head from my arse. Thanks for all the help y'all.

Jim
 

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I've never used that product before but you say it's a type of paint...which isn't a dye. If you're looking for a dye I suggest you go back to Tandy and ask them where they keep the Fiebings oil-based dyes are. Fiebings also makes an alcohol-based dye, but it doesn't penetrate nearly as uniformly as an oil-based dye does.
 
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safetyman said:
I've never used that product before but you say it's a type of paint...which isn't a dye. If you're looking for a dye I suggest you go back to Tandy and ask them where they keep the Fiebings oil-based dyes are. Fiebings also makes an alcohol-based dye, but it doesn't penetrate nearly as uniformly as an oil-based dye does.
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If I wasn't using drum dyed leather (Chestnut and Brown) from Wickett & Craig, I'd be using Fiebings Oil dye. It's great stuff and what I used before I went to the pre dyed stuff.
 
That stuff is used for coloring leather carvings/toolings....not as a dye. I also recommend the Fiebings dyes, especially the professional versions.
 
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