Glueing Fabric To Leather

[venator]

What glue do you use when you want to glue fabric (say canvas, cotton, wool) to the flesh side of leather? A spray? Contact Cememt? Prayers and hope? Goat sacrifice?

Thanks.

[Colt W Knight]

3m Super 77 spray glue. I stick the pieces together while its still wet, get the wrinkles out, and hit it with an iron. Ironing it really makes it stick together well. As long as you get a nice even coat, and really rub the pieces together well, I have never had a problem getting them to stay together well. I have even used both spray products to glue leather lining in things like padfolios, but I think contact cement is best for leather to leather.

3m makes a High-strength 90 glue that has better adhesion, but it comes out kinda like silly string - I don't find it very suitable for cloth to leather gluing because the clumps of glue bleed through.

I have had similar experience using contact cement - It likes to bleed through thin leather and cloth

Edited February 25, 2016 by Colt W Knight

[venator]

Excellent! Thank you sir!

[Red Bear Haraldsson]

Ah, nifty! Now the project that has been rattling around in my head is beginning to take shape..

Thanks Colt!

[Dwight]

I've never done a really large piece like those purses and bags, . . . the small stuff I've done, . . . Weldwood contact cement has done me well.

May God bless,

Dwight

[Colt W Knight]

I saw wildwood contact cement in an aerosol can today, that might be the ideal soulution. Never tried it before though.

[Tugadude]

Colt, that's some beautiful work!