>>> The below sofa is only 5 years old, but has been near a window, and thus has become quite damaged (from a color perspective at least).
1- Dyestuff -these are “transparent” aniline dyed Aniline-21, thus subject to fading more then “opaque” pigmented repairs that still shows.Thus a lost of color. Green is not the primary color, from aniline dyestuff, it is a secondary color from a mix of blue and yellow, and they have unequal fading strength thus result in the shade of the remaining blue and yellow in the mix.
2- Fatliquor (fat and oil) the primary structural conditioner Fatliquor-5.0 dries as they are VOC (volatile organic compound) and as the fat and oil moisture level diminished it will lighten the color intensity as well.
3- The secondary structural conditioner is the EffectWax-8.6 that also dries and diminishes thus the pull-up effect disappears as well. This EffectWax-8.6 imparts live to the appearance and when fully replenished will darken the color intensity as well. When the EffectWax-8.6 is fresh and full it will show a lightening effect when pull and relax will revert back to a darkening effect.
>>> I was hoping you might be able to provide some specific advise and suggest appropriate products to get the job done, if you sell them, or consequently please let me know if my goals are not obtainable and if I should not attempt repair on my own.
My recommendation is to work the above Fatliquor-5.0 and EffectWax-8.6 replenishing to see the improvement before we attempt the Dyestuff with Aniline-21
>>> My primary goal would be to restore the entire sofa back to something close to its original color, while maintaining its wax-pull up feel and complexity in color (in the sense that it does not look like one solid color, but has complex multi-shades in the leather). If maintaining the duality in the color was unobtainable, but I could get it all darker and get the wax feel back in places where it’s gone, that would be secondarily satisfactory.
Both your goals can be achieve - restoring with a transparent dyestuff Aniline-21, rectify the fading problem, Fatliquor-5.0 restore its suppleness from cracking and EffectWax-8.6 restored the pull-up effect.
>>> I have also included one photo where the original color can be seen, it’s still that color because it was professionally repaired by the manufacturer in the first week of me owning the sofa, and I suppose the dye they used did not fade like the rest of the sofa. It was originally a dark green that was almost black. The manufacture of the leather is Mont Blanc, and the name of the color was Pine. It’s an Italian aniline leather. I believe they still make it but may have changed the name to Winter Pine.
It was a mistake to not use the original transparent system (describe above). This job could be undo with Stripper-2.3 and used the above-mentioned Aniline Wax Pull-up system, so that it blends and becomes part of the finishing system.
Let me know what direction you wish to take and I will recommend the appropriate holistic approach.
Roger Koh
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