How to dye like this?

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4 minutes ago, NVLeatherWorx said:

First of all, which upper right?  The background on these is actually done with matting tools and not traditional background tools.  If you go to the Tandy website you can look at their stamping tools and will find exactly what you are looking for.

Thanks yeah I'm familiar with all of the pebble matting tools. I was referencing the large and blocky looking matting.

[Grihm]

On 2017-02-09 at 6:56 PM, Vo1lok said:

Hi! First of all - sorry for my english, i know it's bad

So, today i saw a nice carved leather wallets, with freaking amazing dying technique. Now i can't sleep because i need to know how to get these colours. I think its not spirit dyes, seems like water based or acrylic used with some snain ot acrylic gel (i dont know), but, its so vintage, and lean, yes, its looks old, but clean. Do you have any ideas, or maybe you know this technique? Maybe you can give some advise of dye brand?..God, that's make me mad...

The way i do items like this is ( I use vegetable tanned leather )

1: Carve the pattern with a Swivel knife and hammer down the edges ( with leather tools ) where needed to shape and clean the patterns.

2: Hammer stamp the background with leather stamp tools to get the texture you want.

3: Paint the skulls or Ganesha with a leather shene " shine.

4: Apply an Eco flow Antique ( I´m guessing that the skull wallets use Dark Brown and the Ganesha is Tan ) and make circle motions with ease to apply the antique on the leather.

5: Wipe off the excess color with a dry paper towel.  ( If you want a deeper effect, apply more antique on the same area again and wipe again and so on ).

6: Seal the color with a shene ( shine ) without pressing too hard ( That will remove the color and or leave you with a spotted product when dry ).

Then rinse and repeat and practice. These skills are just a matter of practice, going slow and steady and to accept that you WILL make mistakes. No one goes full success all the time.