Splattered Wallets

[stormcrow]

It has been about 6 weeks since I made anything so I thought this weekend I’d have a go at a couple of simple wallets. I was inspired by a post on here a few weeks ago to have a go at splattering the dye so these are my attempts at doing that. probably not to everyone's taste but I certainly enjoyed doing it.

One lesson I have learned from this is that it is surprising how far dye will travel when you get a bit carried away with splattering I ended up with it all over the place

 

 

Edited April 10, 2017 by stormcrow

[cjartist]

I really like the look.  Especially that first one.

[fredk]

Very different

I  like 'em

[Stetson912]

I would use a box next time hehe. What did you use to splatter it?

[stormcrow]

Thanks for the comments,

I used a pipette initially from just a few inches above then I ended up with the leather on the floor and all 6ft 3in of me standing on a chair , I also used a paintbrush that I hit against my hand to get a finer spray.

Edited April 10, 2017 by stormcrow

[Stetson912]

Haha. Are you familiar with water marveling? They use broom straw bundles to splatter the ink. Kind of like your paint brush technique. I wonder if that would work with dye as well

[kiwican]

I was at a show fair last summer and I saw something really cool, a leather worker was selling wallets and trays and the like and they had a marble pattern on them. I asked how it was done and she used the same method that people use to marble paper for book binding. The results were awesome

[alpha2]

Oh, that explains everything! Actually, I always, since childhood, and that was a LONG TIME AGO...I wondered how they did that. My parents had a lot of books that had that treatment, and while I didn't at the time have any idea why anyone would do it, I was intrigued. I love all those wallets, and that's my next foray into leatherwork...I even bought some yellow thread this weekend!

[Stetson912]

@kiwican that's what I was saying! How cool we both thought of marbled paper and applying those techniques to leather. 

I've always wanted to marble paper but I don't have the space for yet another hobby haha. But I may have to try marbling leather one day. Do you know what the lady used for the color? Was it paint or dye?

[kiwican]

she used paint, Michaels (pretty much our version of hobby lobby I guess) has paint that can be used for this purpose. I've also heard it marbling paint, do a google search and there are a few videos of people doing it