For starters, I just wanted to say I have found this forum to be very helpful in the few projects that I have done. I have made a couple simple holsters and one belt. I am sorry to be asking such a newbie question but have not found what I am looking for yet. I think I am ready to try antiquing my newest project, a belt. I know my lingo is probably way off, but hope you might be able to understand my question. My question is can I just die the tooled portion and border of the belt and leave the background undyied. Then when I put my resistant on, just cover the tooled portion and border and leave the background resistant free. My thinking is the antique will absorb into the cracks and all portions not resisted. Will this give me a background that is darker, assuming I use a dark antique? I have trouble keeping my darker background dye off my raised edges when I attempt to dye with two different color dyes. Part of me thinks this is the normal way of doing it and part of me thinks I am just trying to cut corners. Your help will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
