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I'd rather recycle an unwanted jacket and dye it. Get a horrible white or tan jacket from a charity shop/bin/ebay and use Fiebings dye. I find it very satisfying. It feels creative, although it isn't really. I like the idea of the animal's skin having multiple lifetimes.
Edit: and matching colours are pretty much a given. And you end up with the stuff and the knowledge to redo the dye, and dye other things, and maintain all of them.
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I’m trying and failing to find leather - I want matching leather to recover a saddle, probably make handlebar tape, and mudguard flaps.
Think I need 1mm thickness for saddle and 2mm for mudguard flaps and tape.
The second lightest brown here looks about the right colour, but I don’t fancy getting it from China with barely any information (does it make any sense worrying about animal rights when you’re trying to buy dead animal skins? Probably not, I don’t know).
Anyone have any recommendations? I’m near Bristol if in person is best.