Hello everyone,
Does anyone know of a good, effective way to stain or to dye rawhide? I am asking for the dye-stuffs you use and your process.
In the past, I have only taken a run or two at trying to dye a finished rawhide item. The results were not too gratifying. Typically, the dye just does not "take". It dries on the rawhide, but flakes or wipes off, wtih little of the dye pentrating the rawhide. I used a good, "spirt" type dye (Feibings's, as I recall).
Now I am trying to dye a piece of rawhide to make into narrow strips for a project I'm doing and I was thinking that if I soak the rawhide in alcohol, then soak it immediately in the dye before it can begin to dry out, that the dye might "take".
Have any of you been succesful in your attempts to dye rawhide?