How to age leather?

Why to age leather ? The leather as a material, is excellent for the product’s manufactures like shoes, jackets, bags, belts and a big amount of this sort of stuff. Thanks to the leather properties, this material can reach a long time length (remaining life) over the years.

Therefore, whether the leather is more ancient then more personality and elegancy will be offered as well.

On this tutorial, we are offering you to develop skills and learn the way of how to age leather using the easiest form, doing possible the making on of this job just in few minutes.

So, if you’ve bought a new product, you have the opportunity to apply a simple new homemade technique in order to age the leather.Thus here I explain the procedure step by step to make the work adequately.

Necessary materials

• A jar of glass or a bottle (you can use or choose another vessel) with top.
• Judean bitumen dye.
• Turpentine as diluent.
• Leather to be aged. ( Try small pieces or scraps first. )

Tools which help at work

• Latex hands protection (latex gloves).
• Sharp cutter.
• Swab wool.
• Cleaning blanket.

Steps to age leather

Well then, to develop a properly aging leather job, you must perform each one of the following rules to be described by us here:

1. Let drop carefully the Judean bitumen inside a jar of glass or a bottle, having a special care of getting dirty (avoid stain, that’s why the use of latex gloves are recommended).
2. Then, you must to mix the diluent (turpentine) with the Judean bitumen according with the bitumen density used by you; so you need to change his proportion (bitumen 70% to Judea 30% or bitumen 80% to Judea 20%).
3. Close properly the jar of glass with his top (it must be hermetic).
4. Take the leather piece that you wish to age. You could make a marking work with the sharp cutter or any similar tool (for example a sharp knife) which allow you to make easily lines over the leathers surface for giving it a texture or a drawing (see figure). This going to be more noticed when you have applied the dye to age the leather.

• Now you impregnate the swab wool with the Judean bitumen which is inside the jar, to apply it abundantly obtaining leather dyed. Remember to close again the jar tap and avoid the dye evaporates.
• The next step and without letting dry the dye over the leather, use the cleaning blanket to remove out the Judea bitumen excess. Is necessary to brush it well to remove out the excess as the following figure shows as well.

In conclusion:

As you can see, the technique to age the leather is simple; moreover, it requires materials which are not difficult to obtain them.

Therefore; if you have new leather and you are wishing to obtain an ancient appearance of it, you are not going to have troubles aging leather thanks to our guidance.

However, we recommend you to make tests in pieces or slices of this material as shown in the figures, before applying the technique on the leather to be aged for your concern. With that, you are going to improve and find out the path to age the leather which better adapts to your likes.