07-18-2019, 10:33 AM
Treating it once dry to a good leather fat will darken it somewhat, it may be greasy to start with but after a few days this should largely go away as the leather takes up the fat, will also add some water proofing.
The lighter more fibrous side as you say is likely the flesh side its quite normal...
A second dying may well increase the depth of the colour also, as likely you'd reached the maximum the mixture would allow and exhasted the dye bath...
The lighter more fibrous side as you say is likely the flesh side its quite normal...
A second dying may well increase the depth of the colour also, as likely you'd reached the maximum the mixture would allow and exhasted the dye bath...
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
