How To Repaint Your Lovely Leather Jacket?

It’s not easily to restore color to leather jacket as it may spoil its quality as well as attractiveness also. Thus, there is also another fact yet positive aspect of implying color adds life to the jacket. For coating the jacket, you just can’t pick up any random color unlike fabric color. You have to get the paint that specially and specifically meant for leather and that to for leather apparels. Get the impression color that would natural on leather and will have to long last its quality for which you are restoring it. Thus, these leather special dyes are easily available at leather retailers and many other retailers who sell types of colors and dyes for various products including leather.

You can’t just think and go paint your leather jacket. All you will require some equipment to coat the jacket such as spray, leather based paint and so on.  Thus, make sure you have it before going for restoring color. Before implementing any color on jacket, take a sample swatch of same leather material. If the color goes easily with it then it would go with leather jacket’s material also.

Make Your Leather Jacket For Coloring- Firstly, make your leather jacket ready for coloring. Remove all its defects or faults such as types of odor, stains, stitch it if it is tore or something like that, get back its shape, remove wrinkles and any other flaws.  Give the leather clean surface also by using leather conditioner as it able to maintain suppleness instead of making it rigid after cleaning. If possible, try to remove the old color of jacket or at least make it faded such that it doesn’t affect the new color.

Types Of Color To Use For Leather Jacket- generally there are two types of colors used to dye any leather apparel. One is water based and other is solvent based. Thus majorly water based acrylic color is preferred rather than solvent based. Water based color is easily yet safe to use plus can be wipe out with water if the color caught of hands. You color the leather jacket or try to give the effects by using airbrush, spray or also possible with clean cloth too. Nevertheless, do not use fabrics such as wool or has rough texture.

How To Start- Start coloring your leather jacket with lighter shade and let leave to bit dried. After light color apply darker shade so that the leather jacket would get perfection. You will need to apply several coat of dye because there are chances the dye would get cracks with time of being dried. Therefore, it is better you keep on coating the shade until it is fully-fledged finishing touch.