How to seal a bolone jacket?

Cloaks and jackets from artificial canvas - bologna - appeared in Soviet times and are still popular, since they have low cost and perfectly protect against rain and wind in autumn and spring. However, such jackets are not very strong. They are easily torn, and they have to be sealed.

How to repair a bolone jacket?

How to seal a bolone jacket if a small incision is formed on its surface? For this we need: glue, a suitable fabric, press (any heavy object), acetone (you can use a liquid to remove varnish). Glue is better to choose rubber, for example, "Moment" or "Super Moment" and act during work according to the instruction printed on it.

So, before you start the repair, you need to check how the bologna behaves when applying glue. This can be seen on an unnecessary piece of cloth or on the wrong side of the product. If it does not cringe, then you can proceed to gluing. For this purpose, a piece corresponding to the size of the cut is cut from a suitable material. The edges of the gaps are treated with acetone. Then the cut out patch is smeared with glue and glued on the inside of the thing. It is necessary to make sure that the edges of the cut are correctly aligned with each other, no creases or distortions occur. Then the glued canvas is placed under the press.

How to seal a hole on a jacket?

If the jacket is severely torn, then it is impossible to seal it up as described above. The patch for the bolone jacket is set as follows. Cut two pieces of suitable fabric: one larger, for the inside of the thing, another smaller, just the size of the hole, for the outside. Now you must first glue the gap from the inside, and then from the outside so that the fabric does not wrinkle and do not pull, and the patch was almost invisible. Then the glued piece must be sent under the press. After drying, you can also iron the repaired area with an iron with a temperature of no higher than 110 ° through linen or cotton cloth.