PERMACOLOR FUR PROCESSES

USED FURS RESTORATION

(CLEANING - RETANNING- DYEING)

WORKING SCHEDULE AND HOW-TO-USE OF PERMACOLOR PRODUCTS

INSPECTION AND

DAMAGE CHECK-LIST

SUGGESTED

PROCESSES

SUGGESTED PRODUCT


CLEANING:

 

 

Furs to undergo different

processes

Drumming in tumbler

Sawdust plus Solvent

Excessively filthy fur and/or

Lining

Hand pre-cleaning

Manual Solvents

Spotted fur or lining

Hand spot removing

Hand Pre-spotters

Old and fragile leather

Hand cleaning or in net-bag in tumbler

Manual Solvent.

Unchlorinated Solvent

Furs with stiff, heavy leather

not to be dyed after

Fattening by hand

Leather and fur

Softener

Odorous, stale furs

Add deodorizer to

cleaning solvents

Deodorants

Normally dirty furs and linings

Clean in tumbler

Sawdust plus Solvents

Semi-new furs

Dry-cleaning or in

tumbler

Solvents or Solvents

and sawdust

Furs that will not undergo

further processes: (See FINISHING and

FINAL CLEANING)


HAND RE-TANNING:

Weak old, stiff furskins that

break if wetted




Softening, fattening

re-tanning by hand




Leather softeners.

Tanning,dressing products

FUR SIDE DYEING

General colour improvement

(hair and underfur)



Uptoning, bluishing

yellow removing and

masking



See fur's alphabetical

listing. Acid, disperse

metal complex dyes

to be used as-they-are

for the hair, or diluted

once for hair and

underfur or diluted 2

to 3 times for underfur

Faded colour. Colour

modification. Same colour

simple, or double reinforceing

Reinforcing.

Brush/spray/sponge

Dyeing

All kinds of dyes, adding Fasteners where needed,

adding Thickeners (10%) for

fur tip dyeing. Diluted

once for limited depth,

adding Penetrant

(5ml./Litre) and diluting

2-3 times for deep dyeing

Matching of furs that are of

same colour but different tones

Equalizing, uniforming

renewing, aging,

reinforcing, fading light

bleaching

Equalizers, Uptoners

preceded by Denaturants

Mordants and Fasteners

 

Brush, spray dyeing

A) Denaturants, Mordants

Fasteners.

B) Oxidation dyes added

with 20% of Thickener.

Complete dyeing of fur, in the

same or in different but darker

colour tone

Brush deep dyeing

(Going with and

against the hair)

A) Hand leather re-dress

B) Denaturants + Mordant

C) Adding Penetrant

(5ml./Litre)

D) Deep dyeing

White furs that have turned yellow. Naturally coloured furs to be bleached

Spray, brush, bleaching decolouring

Hand leather re-dressing (in case of deep decolouration). Bleaches and Decolourants

Complete dyeing of fur in the same or different but paler colour

Brush bleaching followed by dyeing. spray uptoning or printing of hair tips

A) Hand leather re-dress

B) Denaturants, bleaches

C) Dyes with penetrants

D) Uptoners. Various dyes

LEATHER-SIDE DYEING

Faded reversible furs. Seams of different colours



Leather side colour restoration. Masking of stitches. Underfur uptoning



Blended dyes(Serial "48")

Furskins or garments to be dyed on the leather side

Leather dyeing

Lacquer and serial "48" type dyes

FINAL

CLEANING-FINISHING

Freshly dyed and dried furs




Colour excess removal




Solvents

Over dyed furs. Wrong colours

Partial colour removal

Thinners, Reducers

Final cleaning

Drumming

Solvents fur Softeners and Glazers

Specialty effects on fur

Hair reversing

Glues for fur

Furs with weak flat opaque hair

Wheel ironing

Fasteners, Glazers, Antistatics

Garments to be waterproofed on fur or leather side

Spray waterproofing

Waterproofers,Spotguards