It's not a costume related problem, but if any of you work with leather, maybe you have some suggestions for me?
Last weekend I reupholstered a chair with leather. It's nice, full-grain supple calf like they sell for making chaps. It's smooth side up and reasonably easy care -- BUT -- I still planned to put some saddle-lac or other finish on it before we used it. I left Wed. to visit my mom and told everyone to stay out of that chair until I got back. Well, no one sat in it, but my son and his friend ate tacos in the living room (grrrrr) and the dim-wit friend set his dinner plate on that chair. The plate must have been greasy on the bottom, because now there is a black half circle on the seat of the chair! It looks just like someone set a wet paint can on the seat. Any ideas on how to get it off or at least lighten it? As an absolute last resort, I might have enough hide left over to cut another piece and re-do it, but *damn* I don't want to do that again! Not only do I not want to put even more work into the chair, I was hoping to use the rest of the hide to do the top of the ottoman. grrrrr.... teenagers! Denise B Iowa _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
