I made some card holders with a front of lacquer leather, so far so good. On one I want to try a crease line around the slots. Problem is the shiny layer is sticking on my warm crease iron and letting lose. With a cooler iron the line will not stand. Any suggestion?
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@Johan Koelma Are you referring to patent leather?
Once you find a temperature below the lacquers melting point, rock the creaser back and forth to press in a crease rather than pull or push, so that the finish is not stressed.
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Yes, the correct name is patent leather indeed. I performed what you suggested and it works indeed. No tearing of the finish and a sharp crease line. Thanks !
Do like a grandmother when ironing a delicate shirt: put a thin piece of cloth between the leather and the hot creaser (test in a scrap piece first to see if it works!).
Just a thought, no idea if it is going to work:
cold crease, press hard
heat up the iron, not too much
heat crease with just the tip (tip your creaser forwards as far as humanly possible) so that only the tip is touching, press hard and move fast
Thanks for your response. I will give it a other try. Enough scrap laying around ;)
I think there 2 points you need to make sure:
1. Set up suitable temperature. If you do not know exactly please adjust the temperature then test on craft piece first then apply to you product.
2.To get crease line on leather we do 2 motion: Push and slide the crease iron on leather. The slide motion is the problem you should try to push the crease iron only one right after one continuously to make the crease line.