Possible Alternative Antique Method...

[J W Craftsman]

I was going through something's in my shop today and came across this faux antique glaze that I bought at lowes years ago.

The antique part caught my eye so I grabbed a scrap piece of leather and thought I'd give it a try.

Put a couple geo stamps on the leather quick then hit it with the glaze. There was no resist of any kind on the leather prior to applying the antique. I wanted to see the results on both the stamped area as well as how well it would dye just the straight leather.

I let it dry a few hours then gave it a coat of straight resolene to see if it would smear, streak, lift off etc. it didn't do any of those things and looks pretty good to me anyways.

Tomorrow I hope to try another test laying down some resist prior to applying the antique then coating it with a 50/50 water resolene to see those results.

So far it seems to me like it works well and could be an alternative to traditional antiques with the bonus of being able to be purchased locally. Will update with more results as I have time to try them. If you have any other test you'd like to see with this let me know and I will try it out.

[Jaymack]

Make sure that there are no petroleum products in the glaze.

[Erystawi]

petroleum (like vaseline?)

why?

[Jaymack]

Petroleum as well as petroleum jelly (Vaseline) will deteriorate leather.