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     Fallisphoto Tinkerer Username: Fallisphoto Post Number: 278 Registered: 09-2006 Rating: N/A |
I'm not sure I am seeing this right. Where the color has worn through, is that red? If so, the leather has a condition called "red rot." Leather with red rot can't be restored. It will crumble if it cets scratched. The best you can do is to somewhat control the deterioration. This is what happens when an object made from leather that was tanned with sulphuric acid is kept in a house where coal is burned in the fireplace or in a stove. The sulphuric acid in the fumes from the burning coal eventually overwhelm the chemical they used to neutralize the acid during the tanning process. That leather is pretty much a crust of powder at this point, being held together by the leather sealer. It used to ruin whole libraries of leather-bound books. Worse yet, any leather with red rot will eat holes in any other leather it comes into prolonged contact with. You can soak it in a colliodal binding agent, but your best option is to replace the leather. |