and we got here today is a leather jacket with a tear in that you can see here we're going to show you how to actually repair that from behind with a sub patch bringing that all together the first part of the process is to actually get into the tear doing that we actually have to undo the seam so we're going to turn the jacket inside out and then we're gonna actually open up the seam for you along here and depending on where the tear is we'll take the seam down on one either side doesn't particularly matter which side they're going to do it on you can do it either side as long as we can get to the tear can I use a seam ripper to do that and we actually undo the actual stitching itself so that we can then redo that stitching back up again okay what we got to do is obviously undo all the stitching work along here or very very carefully and picking that with the seam ripper carefully going along unpicking bit by bit we want to get about two to three inches either side of the actual test that we can get the backing fabric in there to do that so we'll just carefully go along and picking all that stitch work got to be careful that we don't actually catch the lining itself sufficient just snip that off so they can actually get in with the timber we want to put in there which is like a backing plate or most women were actually doing the actual tear so we got all that open so what we need to do now is to actually turn the arm back in the correct way again and then we've got a feed blind the solid piece of timber in because that's going to work underneath to give us a platform to work against so we need to get that in the actual lining and in between the lining and the actual jacket itself to give us a platform that's know in then we can actually see the tear and we can now work on that tear what we've got to do with the tear is actually get it so that when the job is finished it's like a natural scar line in the leather because you'll never get it invisible because it is natural so first of all we're going to recover all that lined up and then we're going to put a piece of clear sellotape onto the tear to hold it in position for us so that we can actually put the backing fabric on once that's done we can take out the timber and turn the arm inside out again ready for the backing fabric to go on we need to pull the jacket through the actual loaning so that we can actually see what we're doing to do the repair I'm going to use the timber back down the arm again to give us a solid surface to work against for putting in the sub patch for gluing that in position to give it strength what's on in position this is a water-based glue that we manufacture is quite a unique glue in respect that you can actually drive this with a hair dryer to speed up your process actually shortening the whole process of gluing any tears quite considerably compared to solvent based products which obviously clearly aren't very good for your health either worse this is water-based glue is environmentally friendly and it's quite safe to use first of all what I want to do is to actually get a piece of blue by slightly opening the tear and get a little bit of glue in that you know sort of tear line that you can see here to bond that together before we actually put in the sub patch that can then just be wiped over with your finger just to separate this move that glue down and I'm going to use the hairdryer to quickly speed that up that'll drive that within a couple of seconds next stage of the process when I cut a piece of back in fabric approximately about an inch bigger than the actual tear itself because what you don't want to do is to actually glue to the definitive edges because that will actually show up on your item so you want to actually put the glue on and actually leave approximately I would say the glue wants to sort of go around this area here so you're actually leaving the outside edges without any glue on them or something up and I get that definitive item showing up you know that you've actually put in as a backing fabric so we're going to put the glue on to the actual leather itself we're going to smooth that glue out and then put on the back in fabric write that into position and as you can sort of see there that you can see the slightly shinier surface coming through the back of fabric that's the glue and obviously all this has not been glued because that then won't actually show up on the underneath for your leather garment and the quickly dry that with a hairdryer again to speed up the process I'm going to remove the timber now and actually turn the arm back in to the correct side again carefully feed that through if it's still delicate at the moment it's not completely fully set because I don't want it to be just yet you've got your sellotape still here covering the tear what we want you to do now - very very carefully take the cellar tape off slowly doing that so that you don't actually reopen that text it will be delicate at the moment holding the tear as you go through what we're going to do now is get a tawny bit of the glue on the toothpick I just want to actually do the final sort of stages to the gluing by literally bending the leather item to open that up to get a tiny bit of glue running in that tear there and once that's done and that's all put back together again this is going to be an extremely strong bond of tear it's going to work except you know if you just wipe off the excess with it being water-based it can just simply wipe off and that's it it's done we can then try that with the hairdryer and your job is complete as you can see that's now fully repaired and the tear is virtually invisible thanks very much for watching the video from the leather repair company you