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2024/12/21
Dior canvas tote pattern recolouring
1. Cleaning: Mix Textile Fabric Cleaner with 5% Heavy-Duty Degreaser, dilute with 10 times hot water and brush away dirt. Afterwards brush once with Colour-Brightening Anti-Yellowing Neutralising Acid diluted with 30 times hot water: the acid treatment, with pH adjusted to 3-4.
2. Purpose and importance of acid treatment after textile cleaning: 1. Neutralise alkaline residue to protect fibres and colour. 2. Remove cleaner residue to prevent brittleness, fading or yellowing. 3. Improve feel and gloss. 4. Reduce renewed dirt adsorption.
3. Colour mixing: 1. Mix Textile Fibre Colouring Resin, Suede and Fabric Colour Paste and Textile Recolouring Agent. 2. For the deep blue-violet undertone, use royal blue and violet red as main colours and other colours to adjust undertone and lightness.
4. Colour application: Choose suitable detail brushes in different sizes and hand-paint the corresponding areas. Build even coverage in several passes. Each pass must dry completely before the next, otherwise light and dark areas may become uneven.
5. Final sealing: Spray Suede Fixative to fix the colour.
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Dior canvas tote pattern recolouring
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Understand the sequence and decisions
Additional explanations based on this case’s original record.
Clean the canvas, carry out the after-cleaning treatment, match undertones and recolour the pattern area by area.
After-cleaning treatment has its own role
The source separately explains residue removal, colour, feel and gloss. This is part of the cleaning sequence, not an unrelated aside.
Source reference：Cleaning; acid-treatment purposeChoose brushes for the pattern scale
Different brush sizes serve different areas. Work through the original pattern area by area.
Source reference：Colour applicationDry between painted passes
Full drying is the condition for the next application to avoid uneven lightness. Final fixing is a separate step.
Source reference：Colour application; final sealingQuestions and answers
Should you wait before painting the next pass?
Yes. The source requires the previous pass to dry completely to avoid uneven colour.