Roger, A customer sent me pictures of a leather table top with indentations in it. I was planning to clean, rinse, Hydrate, fatliquor, Massage. If they remain I will use an iron.
How do you think we should proceed?
Roger, A customer sent me pictures of a leather table top with indentations in it. I was planning to clean, rinse, Hydrate, fatliquor, Massage. If they remain I will use an iron.
How do you think we should proceed?
Indentations are basically the crushing of the leather fiber structures.
The emphssis is hydrating to seperate and relax the crushed fibrils; the most effect approach is work from the suede side and soak it fully for a day or three prior to fatliquoring it suficiently; massaging, stretching or flexing while it's damp during both the hydrating and the fatliquoring process.
Heat pressing is only used as the last resort.
Standard chrome-tanned leather is easy...
Chrome-tanned with aluminum is not so easy...
Vegetable re-tanned leather is hard...
Vegetable-tanned leathers is harder...
It is all about memory retention!
Roger Koh
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Last edited by Roger Koh; 03-08-2011 at 01:11 PM.
Leather table top, I'm sure we can't work from the back side. If protected or waxed aniline will I be able to get hydration and fatliquor to penetrate from surface?
Test it out...
Put a cotton face pad; soak it up with Hydrator-3.3; place it over one of the dents; cling wrapped it to prevent evaporation and check it out after a day or two; to see if it darkens up...
Roger Koh
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