Antiquing Red Leather And Fiebing's Dark Brown Antique.

[Chavez]

Hi!

I've had to dye a carved piece of leather red as I accidentally managed to get it stained with some red ink =( So now I'm trying to decide what would be the best antique to use with it. I've got tan, but it doesn't seem to stand out on red. And I've got a tub of dark brown, but every time I've tried dark brown before, it was really aggressive and would go right through my resolene block and stain the leather.

What antique would you recommend for red? And does anyone have the same problem with dark brown or am I just not putting enough resolene on?

No chance of me getting neat lac in UK but any effective alternatives to resolene would also be very welcome!

Would really hate to throw away a nice carved piece so I need to try and rescue it =((

Thank you!

[lightingale]

If it were me, I'd mix a small amount of black antique paste with red dye, and dilute it with some tan kote so it doesn't go on as dark. It should give you a dark red antique that goes well with the red leather.

I almost always dilute the paste nowadays. I don't know if this is standard practice, but I find the paste a little too harsh straight out of the tub (I use Fiebings).

[Chavez]

Thanks! Would 50-50 paste to tan kote be a good mix?

[electrathon]

Red ink pen? If so, toss it in some brown Fiebings dye and the res will desapear. Sounds wierd but totally true. You can use a red pen all over leather and brown dye will make it disapear.

Aaron

[Chavez]

Hi Aaron.

Thanks for the advice. I've dyed the whole thing red already but for some reason brown doesn't always work vs red for me anyway =(

[footrat]

Fiebing's Saddle Lac applied in a few light coats works well as a resist to antique, at least to the Eco Flo gels. I don't know about the pastes. I use black antique gel over dark brown oil dye, with Saddle Lac in between the two as the resist. It works well.