Dying Garment Leather

[AlexLeather]

So I'm making a leather jacket with some lightweight garment leather and my client wants a unique color, I would have to strip it first before applying the new color. Can I use regular Fiebing's dye, for example the pro oil? Will this last and stand up to rub off? And how would I finish? Thanks for any tips, Alex

[TwinOaks]

Most (pretty much all) garment leather is drum dyed at the tannery. You can probably use regular spirit dyes (Fiebing's and Angelus) to get a decent re-coloring of it, but you can only go darker. There is no "stripping the color" from it....that I know of. It may eventually wear off/out, but if it's a good quality leather, it's struck through. You may have to get a piece that's close to what you want, and experiment a bit to get the right shading.

[AlexLeather]

Yes, I am starting with a solid blue and they want a bit darker blue