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Dyeing a saddle

I’m not brave enough to do it myself, but I have a brown jump saddle that I’d like to dye black. Does anyone have good recommendations of professionals that do this? TIA!

Might want to ask about dye bleeding when damp or wet. It can really make a mess on your clothing by rubbing off. Perhaps they have good sealers now, but in the past an thing of black leather rubbed off on other things we the leather got wet or damp with sweat.

I never blacked the inside of my tall boot legs, because of that. And the year we bought new leather harness, the light color horses wore a diagram of black "harness goes here " all winter! That was just light sweating under the harness! Finally shed it off in spring. I washed that harness so hard to get the dye out, no blacking EVER used on the inside.

Check out the blog entry on Breed Ride Event. The blogger has done it several times and walks you the process and has tips!