Leather Paste

[jrny4wrd]

I want to start learning how to emboss leather with a filler. SF had sent me some leather dust (really dark and dirty looking?) so I mixed it with weldwood cement into a thick consistency. I wanted to se how it dried so I had put it into a small glop and left it. It had shrunken down quite a bit and barely held together. Should I be using rubber glue, or cement? Does the leather dust need to be a specific gradual size, maybe it was too tiny? Should it look like the color of leather? I am wondering if I just got a bunch of junk and dirt off the floor. Is there a specific brand glue that works best to make the paste? 

[immiketoo]

I use rubber cement.  My dust looks clean and like it was purpose made, but any color should work really.  Weldwood is not ideal for this task.

 

[jrny4wrd]

7 hours ago, immiketoo said:

I use rubber cement.  My dust looks clean and like it was purpose made, but any color should work really.  Weldwood is not ideal for this task.

 

What brand do you use?

[immiketoo]

In the states, I used plain old elders, here in Europe, I use Renia.