Dash Rendar fabric help needed

[mac3kuby]

So I am still working on my Dash Rendar costume. I need the fabric for the center of his jump suit. I have looked at several stores in town (orlando) and cannot find it locally. Dash Rendar ? source guide « Rebel Legion Fringe Detachment shows what I am looking for. Basically a light brown, almost worn leather color, with a diamond or square pattern in it. Anyone able to help???

 

[Halliwax]

I'd love to see this project when it's done I always liked dash from the N64 game

 

[Mr_Creepy]

Looks like a quilted pattern, not one that's printed/woven in.

Similar, not leather, but could be dyed and altered -
Diamond Double Faced Quilt Fabric at Joann.com

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

I don't think that is meant to be a pattern in the sense that it is decorated. I believe that the pattern is to represent stitching to represent built in padding.

Something like this: https://www.etsy.com/listing/120220016/brown-faux-leather-quilted-vinyl-fabric?ref=market

If you want to make your own, I probably could suggest a method.

 

[mac3kuby]

I actually started thinking the same thing. So I went and bought the exact fabric you linked to and dyed it tonight. Running it through the washer now. I will post pics of the fabric tomorrow. I can't believe I spent hours looking in stores for something I could do myself. Lesson learned

Looks like a quilted pattern, not one that's printed/woven in.

Similar, not leather, but could be dyed and altered -
Diamond Double Faced Quilt Fabric at Joann.com

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I'd love to see this project when it's done I always liked dash from the N64 game

I have a build thread here: http://www.therpf.com/f79/dash-rendar-costume-build-209600/
You can keep up with it if you want to watch the progress. It is going faster now that I am off for 2 months Worked on the armor today too.

 

[mac3kuby]

Well I dyed the fabric mentioned above. It looks great in this picture, but the real color is more of a milk chocolate. I may re-dye it to get closer to the accurate color. I need another set of eyes to figure it out. When my wife gets home I will ask her opinion. Either way I am getting closer to done

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

You may have to mix dyes to get the color you want. Way back before my commission, I was enlisted and at the time we still wore dungarees. They easily faded and we often re-dyed them instead of buying new pants. However you could not just use navy blue dye or they turned out purple. You had to use 2 navy blues to 1 black. You may want to try something like that.