Dyeing the Background on a Leather Floral Pattern

This video shows how to dye the background of a leather floral pattern. We are dyeing the horse head floral piece from our July Tooling series for this tutorial.

In this video I am using Black Fiebings Pro Oil Dye and Dark Brown Antique Paste also by Fiebings.

If you would like to tool the pattern from this tooling series, here is a link to a FREE copy of this pattern: https://dgsaddlery.com/julytoolingser...
Just enter your email address and we will shoot that out to you. It is a PDF file that you can download and print on your own printer.

This is video #4 in this series. You can find Video #1 here:    • Figure Carving a Horse Head into Leather  

Here is our original video on dyeing leather:    • Painting on Leather  
Here is our original antiquing video:    • antique video  

The model for this project is an unknown Bay Gelding that resided on a place that borders us. I just liked the way the horse looked and took many photos of him for artwork reference. Not sure what happened to him, but we haven't seen him in a long time... I like to think that he is somewhere on the rodeo trail or maybe just retired and moved to Florida.