I need some help and want to find out where I can send a jacket to get a button reattached. I caught one of the cuff buttons of a Rainbow Country jacket on the edge of my car door and it pretty much tore it off the jacket. The thread did not pull through the leather at all but the button shank winding is finished.
I called around here locally and throughout Canada to various self proclaimed leather jacket repair places and no one seems to know how to properly sew a button back on. From what I understand you need a button shank winding machine and when I mentioned that no one knew what I was talking about. I even called Himmel Brothers who has such a machine, but they refused to help me out and don't do repairs. I think most of these places think its probably just like sewing one back on a shirt and don't understand that a wound shank is needed.
Before I start calling around in the USA now, can anyone point me toward someone who can repair this? I will try calling Johnson Leathers next but I'm running out of ideas. I want this button and probably one on another jacket, to be sewed back on properly using the correct method and machinery.
Thanks to any who respond.
I called around here locally and throughout Canada to various self proclaimed leather jacket repair places and no one seems to know how to properly sew a button back on. From what I understand you need a button shank winding machine and when I mentioned that no one knew what I was talking about. I even called Himmel Brothers who has such a machine, but they refused to help me out and don't do repairs. I think most of these places think its probably just like sewing one back on a shirt and don't understand that a wound shank is needed.
Before I start calling around in the USA now, can anyone point me toward someone who can repair this? I will try calling Johnson Leathers next but I'm running out of ideas. I want this button and probably one on another jacket, to be sewed back on properly using the correct method and machinery.
Thanks to any who respond.