Is there a way to tape off parts of a piece of veg tan you are dying so you can dye it a different color? I want to make a small Midori style notebook for my niece and her nickname is dot so I’d like to do a polkadot pattern. Dye seems to act way different than paint by soaking into the leather and such, is this even possible? This will hopefully be her potions/spell book if I like how the wand I make turns out
You might do some experimenting with “liquid frisket” it’s a masking material that you can peel off.
Ok I don’t know who named that but kudos to them. From what I’m reading it’s just liquid vinyl though, is the easy peel the upshot
I’ve never tried that so if it works, let me know. Personally I’ve just used a paintbrush to paint in the 2 different colors. It is tedious work that way.
I’m sure there’s a junk scrap I can test it on
You could do the dots in acrylic paint My SCA armor was dyed black, bu the
Celtic knotwork was in acrylic on it
Laser or vinyl cutter masking and airbrush?
I doubt a mask would work well since leather is so pourus
I did just that when I made my leather MTG pack holders.
For the detail piece, I lasered it with blue tape on top, removed the tape where the symbol is, and then very gently applied some purple with a q-tip where the blue tape was removed. You want to use a very small amount of dye to keep it from absorbing under the edge of your stencil.
The lasered area acted like a mask It sealed the leather fibers
That is good idea how to do it
you might take a piece of scrap leather and see if masking wrks
As in magic the card game? Also great idea
Any finish over the acrylic or just the paint?
Yup. Making a swanky drafting set and box for my cube (which is not nearly so swanky).
I inadvertently got antique dye over it, then sealed it.
If you use laser or swivel knife cuts to isolate the parts, you can paint dye onto selected areas using a small paintbrush with minimal chance of bleeding.
This is often done with western (Sheridan) style tooling to blacken the background.
Sample Googled image (not my work):