How To Fix Tearing In Leather Cushions

Minor amercement can hands exist repaired with COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather, a coloured filling material which can exist used for repairing small holes, tears, deeper scratches and cracks. COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather has filling and adhesive backdrop and remains soft and flexible after drying.

PREPARATION

COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather is only recommended for damage where filling is required. Scratches and general wearable and tear on the colour surface do not need to be treated with COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather. In such cases, we recommend to smooth the surface using COLOURLOCK Leather Sanding Pad and to refresh the color with COLOURLOCK Leather Fresh.
The surface of COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather is smooth and shiny after drying. To hide the repair, a colouration with COLOURLOCK Leather Fresh in the respective color is necessary. This covers the gloss of the COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather. Dab the COLOURLOCK Leather Fresh several times with a sponge on the repair and dry with a pilus dryer in between the layers until the desired covering is achieved.
Ensure you degrease the repair expanse with COLOURLOCK Leather Cleaning Spirit in lodge to remove remaining care products containing grease, waxes, silicones etc. before applying COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather.
Smooth crude areas and scratches with the COLOURLOCK Leather Sanding Pad before starting any repairs with COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather.
In case of hardened leather, always carry out repairs with COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather earlier whatsoever treatment with COLOURLOCK Old Leather Softener. This oily treatment reduces the adhesion of the COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather.

PROCEDURE

COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather has a removable cap. Remove the cap and fill up the damaged areas. Evenly spread the COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather with a Spatula. Let the repair dry out co-ordinate to the amount used – about i-2 hours. Echo the procedure until the repaired area is as full and smooth as possible.

Degrease with COLOURLOCK Leather Cleaning Spirit

Polish the surface with the COLOURLOCK Leather Sanding Pad.

Fill cracks with COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather.

Spread evenly with a spatula.

In instance of larger damage information technology'due south not ever possible to shine the surface evenly just by using the Spatula. Such areas have to exist reworked. COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather cannot be sanded dry. This would damage the repair.

We recommend using the COLOURLOCK GLD Pen to smooth the repair. The GLD Solvent slightly dissolves the surface of the COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather and provides a smoother finish.

Open the lid of the COLOURLOCK GLD Pen and printing downward the felt tip several times until it is moistened. If the felt tip gets as well moist, remove the excess quantity by cleaning information technology with a cloth. Smooth the repair area carefully with the moistened felt tip. When the repair area is moisture with GLD, sand with COLOURLOCK Leather Sanding Pad to shine the repair area. Always piece of work with niggling GLD to prevent the repair area from becoming likewise dissolved. Using GLD, a repair can exist adjusted to achieve the best possible upshot.

Professionals tin repair the graining on a piece of work surface area using a Repair Grain. Usually, erstwhile leathers are smooth and do not need a new graining.

The tip of the COLOURLOCK GLD Pen tin can exist removed and reversed when worn. Particularly when working on a new colour, information technology is necessary to modify or plough the felt tip upside down.

Finally, repairs with COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather must be recoloured with COLOURLOCK Leather Fresh to balance differences in colour and gloss. In order to encompass the COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather sufficiently, the COLOURLOCK Leather Fresh should be dabbed on the surface area several times and stale in between the layers with a hair dryer. For purposes of intendance, the leather should be treated with Leather Protector a day later.

A Hole WITH MISSING LEATHER

A TEAR IN THE LEATHER

Leathers with big tears must first be examined in club to decide whether it would exist better to replace the weak leather. Long tears in sometime and rough leathers or in areas of high use are oft irreparable or not durable plenty afterwards a repair. We recommend the repair of tears only on stable leathers and only if the tear is no larger than a few centimetres.

Procedure: Minor tears which are non under tension should be glued with COLOURLOCK Leather Glue from edge to edge. And so close the tear with COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather as explained.

Tears nether high tension area should be backed past thin cloth. In example of very large tears and/or very crude leathers, information technology is recommended to sew the leather with a thin just strong thread. Identify a seam every 3-four centimetres with the starting knot on the leather's reverse. Cover the thread with COLOURLOCK Fluid Leather.

If the leather is non too crude, drill a small pigsty to the right and the left of the tear (approximately two-3 millimetres) and sew with a round needle. Lay the knot underneath and pull the tear together. Tears in areas of frequent use should always be replaced past new leather when they are as well large; the aforementioned applies for weak or hardened leathers.