How to recolour leather jacket

How to recolour leather jacket

At long-term use and sock of leather products they lose the original form and color, become unattractive and dim. It is possible to restore color of leather jacket in house conditions, without resorting to the help of professionals. Coloring can be both surface, and deep, but you should not experiment with color, it can result in undesirable results.

It is required to you

  • - laundry soap,
  • - rag,
  • - nitropaint of right color,
  • - castor oil,
  • - brush,
  • - aerosol cans with paint,
  • - shoe cream or wax mastics.

Instruction

1. Before starting coloring, it is necessary to clean leather product. Add to warm water of a little laundry soap, moisten rag and carefully remove all dusty pollution from surface of leather jacket, doing not pass seams and folds. After that wipe product with the clean rag, the wetted in warm water, and leave to dry under natural conditions. Now it is possible to start coloring.

2. Today in shop it is possible to buy special nitropaints, color necessary to you. Take 100 grams of paint and add couple of drops of castor oil, carefully mix. Oil will make paint more resistant, and it will not begin to burst on bends of leather jacket. Apply paint on thing by means of brush with uniform layer, leave to dry at the room temperature.

3. It is possible to buy skin nitrocolour in special aerosol cans which lays down on product surface thin and even layer. You keep the spray at arm's length of 15-20 centimeters from jacket and quickly move along its surface. Leave a little to dry up for 10-15 minutes, after that put one more layer of spray paint. Continue until receive uniform coloring. Final drying will require one hour. If on skin there were flows or flow paints, remove them by means of solvent.

4. If on jacket small defects were formed, they can be disguised the shoe cream suitable on color or the wax mastics just for decoration.

5. To receive gray-scale transition, skin is pickled special solutions. Soda ash or potash, gray – iron vitriol gives brown shade. It is desirable to pickle poorly divorced solution, applying it with cotton tampon or soft brush over and over again. It will provide soft junction of shades and equal tone.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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