2 tone dye of tooled leather

[divergeknife]

Hey there, second question.

I'm about to make a long "womens"  type wallet. fairly basic design as far as structure however I planned on doing a "basic" tooling job. Probably just a lace pattern perhaps with a border.

I have 2 colors I want to use. the interior I want to make a dark brown and the outside I want to make a very redish "burgundy" However...I would like the tooled lace pattern and border to be the same color are the interior pieces. So, the entire outer shell burgundy but the area tooled I want darker. Is there way to do this without a tiny brush and just painting the tooled area? I kind of wanted a faded pattern where some burgundy shows through in the lace. Thanks in advance for any direction.

[divergeknife]

At 4:44 this feller uses some sort of paste, it appears that's the general idea of what I want....

 

At the end around 10:44 you can see that the original color shows through.

 

[Stetson912]

The paste he used looked like feibings black antique paste. The process is called antiquing and there are tons of threads on it I'm sure. 

Basically you could dye the whole project the border color. Then use a resist on the border (like resolene or super sheen). Once everything is sufficiently dry, you work in the antique paste and wipe it off quickly afterwards and let dry. 

The longer you let the antique sit the darker it will get. There are several colors of antique feibings offers. Hope that helps you out.