Mask Arts Company Leather Mask Finishing

Mask Arts Company

Commedia dell'Arte Masks

Finishing for Leather Masks

To finish each mask, use traditional leather dyes and stains and my own custom formulas I have developed. Different masks can require different finishes. Need a special color(s), finish or hair, let me know. Have even created a mask which part of it glows in the dark and lights up.

According to a Mask Maker friend in Europe, because of how I create and mold the leather in my masks I have a much broader range of colors I can use to dye and stain my mask than the European mask makers.

Several finishes I developed myself, one cannot buy on the open market. It gives a long lasting flexible protective finish to masks that preserve the leather. My finishes take time to work into the leather. Some times taking not a few minutes but a few days of waxing, polishing, shining and re-waxing. Have all kinds of different shine brushes, professional shine cloths and favorite rags. Yes as my clothing wears out, I feel the cloth to see if it right to elevate into rags, which are tools.

If you have an old leather mask and would me to refurbish it, that I do. The mask ends up looks better than when it was new.

A mask should be somewhat like a shoe; flexible, natural, breaths and comfortable. As you wear your masks, it will shape to you like a high quality shoe. Have a question, please ask.