here are pictures of the leather job I asked about earlier. the new leather was thick, and no give, after two months of use look at them now. they paid a designer $10,000 for these. any help out there?
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Please let me know if this worked, can you see the pictures?
Yes, the links worked.
I'm surprised that it is a "thick leather with no give" It looks more soft and supple in the pics.
Tried anything like steaming, or this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX2BAr5CHwo
I don't really have any good answers for you.
BTW you can copy the img thumbnail, and paste it here like this:
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the leather was thick with no give when I upholstered the chairs, now that they have been used for three months and are broken in they seem to be better. but looks like the leather is going to fall off now. When I did them there were no slack or wrinkle anywhere on the chair. I put on dry because I did not want the shrinkage ton the inside curve.
I feel for you Chris. Barrow chairs can be a pain. On a typical chair you have to pull really snug up and down as your upholstering it. This alone takes out most of the wrinkles. Then pull the rest out by pulling toward the front and around the arm.
I can see your dilemma. With the boxing on the top of the arms and around the front you can only pull so much.
I'm sure the chairs looked great when you delivered them. But the leather stretched. Its not your fault, and now you have to fix it. The only thing I can see is taking them apart and resewing the pattern tighter. Maybe wet the leather before you re-reupholster them. Even after all this there is no guarantee it wont stretch even more.