How to Repair a Rip in a Leather Recliner

Brush the torn area of the recliner. Snip a clean edge around the tear. Purchase a leather repair kit that has a patch in the same color, weight and grain of your recliner's leather. Check to see of the kit has a leather filler and bottle of color.

Measure the hole in the leather. Cut a sub-patch from the fabric. Cut the fabric patch to a size that is 1/2 inch larger than the hole. Even if the hole is tiny, do not make the sub-patch less than one inch square.

Open the fabric glue and run a thin bead of glue around the edges of the sub-patch. Grasp the leather with the tweezers and lift it enough to slide the sub-patch beneath the hole. Do not let it touch the leather until you have flattened it under the leather. Smooth it out with the butter knife.

Press the leather down on top the sub-patch. Place the blue painter's tape over the hole. Wait for the glue to dry. Remove the leather patch from the kit. Turn the patch over and outline the exact measurements of the hole onto the leather with chalk. Cut the leather patch.

Cover the underside of the leather patch with fabric glue. Hold it with the tweezers and carefully set in onto the sub-patch directly into the hole. Place blue tape over the patch and wait for it to dry.

Remove the tape and check to make sure the glue is dry. Pull at the patch gently to make sure it is not loose. Dampen a cotton swab with alcohol and brush away and glue residue on to the leather patch. Do not saturate with alcohol.

Open the leather filler and apply it sparingly to any cracks that show between the patch and the original leather. Let it dry and apply another coat if you still see cracks. Rub away any filler residue with a clean dry cloth.

Open the liquid leather color and paint from the edge of the leather patch out into the original leather, blending the patch into the original. Apply as many coats as needed to make the patch become indiscernible. Let the paint dry overnight. Polish and buff leather.