Fiebing's Leather Dye (4 Fl Oz) - Alcohol-Based, Penetrating, Permanent Dye for Shoes, Boots, Belts, Bags, Furniture - Includes Wool Dauber Applicator

Excellent product. Have these boots in another color and really wanted black, but didn’t like all the blue. I applied it with a paint brush, it is easy to use and gave excellent results. If you apply it to a whole area with the lambswool applicator it will be easy to get a beautiful consistent finish. With painting it on with a small brush it takes some care for consistent coverage. Exceeded expectations and I would highly recommend it.

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Did the job

I got this dye to try and fix a nice leather sofa that had sat by a window for several years and had been badly sun bleached on the top half of the couch. The parts of the couch that had not been sun bleached were a dark grey-brown so I went with the dark brown dye. I knew there was no way that the colors would match perfectly and when I tried a spot out in the sun bleached area they clearly didn’t. Fiebing’s dark brown has quite a bit of red in it. I then tried a spot where it wasn’t sun bleached and it was very dark but did give it more of the red hue that would match the sun bleached and died areas.I should mention before I did any of the dying I cleaned the couch with a quality leather cleaner and tried to deglaze the leather with a mixture of lemon juice and water. What you are trying to do with the deglazer is to take off any previous top coat so that water and dye readily soaks into the leather. I initially did not want to use Fiebing’s deglazer as I heard it was pretty nasty stuff and I was planning on doing this project in the living room right where the couch sat. I do have another leather chair that I want to die though so I am going to use the deglazer on that and will report back if there is any noticeable difference.Back to the dying process. Before any dying be sure to put down a tarp if you care about the floor you are working on. If you get it on wood, carpet etc. you will not get it out. To apply the dye I used “Viking Cotton Terry Wax Applicator Pads”. These seemed to work pretty well as the outside is a soft cloth and inside is a spongy material that soaked up quite a bit of dye. You can use the applicator that comes with the dye and while it works well for small areas, I would be there for years if I tried to do a whole couch with it. I did as many coats as it took to get the darkness I wanted and obviously the more coats you do the darker it will be. I got the two distinct areas close enough in color that I was happy with it and called it good. It was by no means perfect but it was at least close enough to not be immediately noticeable. I used about 3 ½ bottles of dye for the whole couch. As another side note the couch does have those brass “buttons” all over the front. I contemplated removing all of them but that was going to be very time consuming. In the end I just applied the dye right over top of them and it only changed the color very very slightly. One other word of warning, wear a couple sets of latex gloves. I had latex gloves on the whole time and some dye still got through making my hands look like oompa loompa hands for about a week. Your co-workers will notice, trust me.After I had let the dye dry for a couple of days I wanted to make sure it wouldn’t come off onto clothes so I rubbed it pretty hard with a dry cloth and it seemed fine. Then I rubbed it with a wet cloth though and dye immediately came off. Crap. After a little more research I bought the resolene top coat and put multiple coats of that on the couch. I ended up just using one bottle of the resolene top coat and that seemed to work pretty well.3 Month Update:I am seeing that in certain areas the dye seems to be lightening and in some areas it has gone back to it’s original color. Here are my observations and thoughts. In the areas that weren’t sun bleached it seems to have gone back to its original color in most areas. My guess is that over time the dye soaked further into the leather leaving the original dye on top. I’m not sure how to correct this but I may try their deglazer instead of the lemon water and see if that works better. I have also noticed some lightening of the dye in some of the sun bleached areas, to fix this I will probably just keep trying the re-dye the area until it is saturated.

Very good it work and look good on my shoes east to use dries fast

Did its job and applied even and smooth. I did a pair of ostrich boots and a belt. Came out great. Very satisfied.

Darker than expected but nice brown. Dyed some boots that were practically new and a chestnut color. Rubbed them down with 50/50 alcohol and water. Let sit a couple minutes and went to work. Used artist brush to cut in tight areas and the supplied dauber to apply the rest. 20 minutes or so between two coats and they are dark but I like it. Only used a couple tablespoons of dye at most. Will rub them down with some Bickmore tomorrow and be done.

Great product, and worked as described.