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Posted this in the Motorcycle section but thougth I'd try hear too:

I was looking at some seats from a guy and noticed they're not tooled. They look like they were printed. It remonds me of Decoupage, or maybe some sort of tranfer like a heat tranfer for a t shirt or a temporary tattoo water transfer. Anyone seen anything like this and can point me towards some resources?

his description says: "This is a new Distressed Tattoo Seat with a Bomber Plan and Pinup design, that is embedded into the veg-tanned tooling leather. The image is water resistant, very fade resistant and very abrasion resistant. The process gives the seat a tattooed look."

Any thoughts?

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A couple of processes come to mind:

1. Since leather is the skin of an animal, it could be tattoo work;

2. Since leather is porous like paper it could be a very good photo quality ink jet printer;

3. Or a very good Air Brush Artist.

BillB

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You might want to check out the thread "Full color printing on leather" on the "Specialty Leatherwork" section under "Other Specialties" in the "Art" forum.

BillB

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Thank Bill, I will look there and see what I find....

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