Alternatives for Lining

[Aaaron]

Hey fellow crafters! I recently made a leather ipad sleeve and the flesh side of the leather makes it difficult to remove from the sleeve itself. Do you just leave it as it is to season the sleeve after multiple times of "ins and outs" or would you use lining? And if lining is used, what material do you use?  Thank you in advance!

[fredk]

1. leave it as it is and it'll wear smoother through use

2. a nice slick lining is glazed pig skin  https://tandyleather.world/products/glazed-pig-lining?_pos=1&_sid=c3c46daab&_ss=r

or this https://tandyleather.world/collections/leather/products/economy-mission-grain-lining

[Tugadude]

Another option is to treat the interior with Tan Kote or Gum Tragacanth and burnish it with a glass slicker of a bone folder.  Time will smooth the interior out, but this speeds up the process.

P.S. Some use a mixture of 50% beeswax and 50% Neatsfoot Oil, but I have no experience with it.  It has to be mixed on a stove I think.  Use extreme caution if doing so!

[fredk]

6 minutes ago, Tugadude said:

Another option is to treat the interior with Tan Kote or Gum Tragacanth and burnish it with a glass slicker of a bone folder.  Time will smooth the interior out, but this speeds up the process.

P.S. Some use a mixture of 50% beeswax and 50% Neatsfoot Oil, but I have no experience with it.  It has to be mixed on a stove I think.  Use extreme caution if doing so!

I would highly not recommend either of those

Unfortunately, I have experienced that the funny rubbery plastic used on mobile phones, ipad etc can get stained by these. I had to replace two phone covers because of this. Fortunately one was mine, t'other was my dottir's  and not customer's

[Aaaron]

Thank you @fredk and thank you @Tugadude! 

If i were to include a lining, would y'all recommend using felt or velvet as the lining instead?

[paloma]

50 minutes ago, Tugadude said:

Another option is to treat the interior with Tan Kote or Gum Tragacanth and burnish it with a glass slicker of a bone folder.  Time will smooth the interior out, but this speeds up the process.

P.S. Some use a mixture of 50% beeswax and 50% Neatsfoot Oil, but I have no experience with it.  It has to be mixed on a stove I think.  Use extreme caution if doing so!

it's as i do: 2 first pic:  https://tradisign.blogspot.com/2020/09/a5-notebook-folder-in-progress.html

Edited September 14, 2020 by paloma

[mike02130]

Leave it alone and see what happens.  May not be much you can do if it's sewn together.  Burnish with Tokonole.

[paloma]

12 minutes ago, mike02130 said:

Leave it alone and see what happens.  May not be much you can do if it's sewn together.  Burnish with Tokonole.

don't agree with you at all, I always do it this way and I always get excellent results and my clients are delighted.

afterwards, everyone is free to take the advice into account or not

Edited September 14, 2020 by paloma

[mike02130]

1 hour ago, paloma said:

don't agree with you at all, I always do it this way and I always get excellent results and my clients are delighted.

Huh?  You don't agree yet you do it that way with excellent results?  Do you even know what Tokonole is?

[paloma]

I don't need it, because I get perfect results as I expect them with the product I have.