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I'm looking for black vinyl with this specific backing.  Anyone seen it before? Where might I get it? Thanks.

I've always been scared to do leather.  It's so expensive and I'm worried I might mess it up.  I made a vinyl prototype first before doing this.  Took me a liesurely 3 months to do these.  I had to repair the driver side bolsters, which was a new skill, and the patterns killed me.  These are old and rare Porsche sport seats.  Sold them for $1350.  The leather alone was $500 since they are full leather all the way around.  1.5 hide of regular and .5 hide of perferated.  These are probably the most difficult seats I've done so far.  I made about 7 cents/hr.  I also learned what "good" leather is supposed look and feel like.
Before and After
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I always use black vinyl with premade black welt cord,  but now I'm doing a seat in the color cork and have to make the welt cord as I can't find the premade stuff in that color.
I'm wrapping the vinly strip around the poly cord and sewing it with a welt foot.  I can't keep the edges aligned while sewing so I stapled the edges together.  There must be a better way.

I watched a youtube video where the guy cut out a bad section of a car seat bolster and then glued in a piece of open cell foam.  He then rough cut the shape with a turkey knife then fine tuned it with an angle grinder.  What king of pad or disc would you use to grind the foam?  How about on closed cell foam? Thanks.

A rectangular piece of 1/2" sewfoam with Vinyl glued on top, making 5 pleats, 2" wide.  Double needle machine.  The piece needs to be 20" long.  How long do I need to cut the vinyl/sewfoam? Is there a general rule of thumb here? Maybe adding 1/4" for each pleat? 

What would be the proper way to finish this off?

This will be the headrest of a seat cover.  Vinyl with cut away backing. 
How close to the letters should I cut it?  Should I glue the backing down so it doesn't move when pulling the cover over the seat? Cut the corners rounded?

This is a Porsche seat with the supple leather option.  Is that a special kind of leather?  How exactly is the wrinkle look done?

What is this stuff called?
I've asked this a few a years ago, just that I'd try again.
Is there maybe a good substitute for this and what would that be called
and where can I get it?  They are from a Porsche seat if that matters.
Tanks

A little hard to see in the pic, but there is an impression branded into my plastic window. The shelf below the window was not seated properly and consequently the shelf edge pressed into the window when the top was lowered. It was a very hot day.  I spent an enormous amount of time making this piece and would dread making another.
Any possible way to repair this?

I finished recovering these three stools for a friend today.  I used a Brother pe-700 for the embroidery, OEM Harley vinyl,  closed cell foam, dacron, and a layer of 1/2" volara foam on top of the wood base which makes it a little more comfee.

Before and afters.