Coach Rehab and Rescue Club
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That might be the first stages of dry rot, before it wrinkles and cracks - I don't know, just guessing. I would say give it lots of nourishment!
Beautiful bag!
I"m attempting some white paint this week so waiting to see how your final bag work goes. Great work!!I think I just got super lucky with my first try! I never even really had an art class!
it's almost like it was stored with one side facing a warmer surface/heater or something. or one side got damp ages ago and really stretched out, and dried funny, albeit with no color loss I assume?
huh...that's interesting. She must have held one side against her body consistently? Maybe you'll just have to do the same. I personally can't think of anything besides a bath, the one side looks more burnished maybe?
Love that bag.
someone did.!!..does somebody here need to fess up?
ooh I hope one of us got it!
So I have been reading about y'alls problems with "painting" white bags, but my experience couldn't have gone smoother. I mentioned before that I was looking for a "guinea pig" white bag that I could play with before I tried doing anything with my "cashin & potential cashin" white bags.
So, Friday, I got this super ugly dirty Anderson zip in the mail. I impatiently snapped few pix, awhich unfortunately I didn't check, before I threw her in the washing machine. The pix do not accurately display how dirty she was...if it looks like a shadow, it truly was dirt. The edging all around was grey & dirty, it was grey & meh around all the seams, and the bottom of the bag especially was dirty.
When she was mostly dry, I mixed some of the "Linen" acrylic paint with Leather CPR. I didn't measure it, but it was easily more than 50% conditioner, probably at least 60/40. I rubbed in a couple light coats with a make up sponge and then hung her up to continue drying. After she was completely dry I rubbed in a couple more coats of leather CPR.
The end result, I thought, was fabulous. It doesn't feel like it's been painted, it just seems to have even out the color. It doesn't feel any different than I would expect a white bag to feel. I'm going to try to post the before and after pix together, please be patient with my photography, the pix are horrible!
Bottom before, out of focus so you can't see how dirty it is:
AFTER:
Top with piping:
After: I really just took this picture to show how the untreated and relatively inner pocket matches the outside of the bag, but you can also see how much better the piping looks. Obviously, the bath did some good too, and I have no after bath, before her makeover pix.
Front of the bag, I wasn't able to get all the dents out. Again, this doesn't show all the dirt either, unfortunately:
After:
I don't know how I didn't get a picture of the back of the bag before, but here is the after:
The sides were really bad too, in fact this bag was just grey and meh everywhere there were seams:
So...this experience made me feel better with doing the same thing to the older bags I was talking about earlier. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm leaning in that direction. I also feel like I would be able to get the paint off, I just really don't want to put these bags through a lot of scrubbing...ugh! Decisions!
Linen acrylic & CPR...rules! Very nice job, as usual!
If you hadn't spelled out exactly what paint color you used, I don't know if I would have gotten such a good match so-thanks!
This is what my purse looks like on its bad side:
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Is it really that bad? It just looks a little more burnished and worn...It is super cool though, I love it!
No, mine isn't quite that bad. But that is what you would expect for a bag that old. I guess I wouldn't mind if mine looked the same on both sides but one side looks brand new. I don't want to artificially age it to match the other side. I want to make the used side look more like the new side. I am thinking about dipping it in hot water and then using my hairdryer on it in an attempt to shrink it.
I dunked and hit the bad side with the hairdryer, then conditioned and did more drying. I don't know if it helped that much with the texture but the color is better - isn't that odd? I could actually see it lighten as it dried. I decided that this bag has cellulite - that is what the leather looks like to me. I wonder if there is anything else I can try. I am happy with it now but if there is a way to make it even better, I would be willing to try. The first pic is what it looked like yesterday, the second is today's after the hairdryer.
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