Faux Leather tape
Match ‘N Patch Leather Tape
Match ‘N Patch is a faux-leather tape that can be used to repair real or faux leather. The manufacturer recommends it for areas that “aren’t major interaction points” It comes in black and white tape, as well as several shades of brown. They also sell patches.
Pelle Patch sells 25 different colors of synthetic leather patches that can be cut to size
Duck Brand Duct Tape is not technically a leather tape, but it can be used on leather—but it won’t hold on places that get a lot of use—like seats of sofas or chairs. It won’t look like leather, but it will hold and you can use it to create some funky designs, too. Not recommended for use in cars, as it won’t hold up well in extreme conditions.
White Leather Tape
White leather tape can be useful especially for upholstery that needs repair. This can include couches, sofas, dining chairs, stools, and any upholstery that will see sizeable traffic and need a durable method to fix it.
Black Leather Tape for Sofa
Black leather tape is very helpful for use on black leather sofas. These can be either natural leather or faux leather, where the tape can help provide a sturdy and durable surface while holding together smaller rips and tears in the material.
Brown Leather Tape for Sofa
Brown leather sofas, and related shades of tan, can benefit from specically brown leather tape and dark brown leather tape. This will help the tape blend in to the color of the sofa, making it less noticeable, while also providing a string and durable surface that can hold up to the sitting traffic the sofa might see.
Leather Tape for Car Seats
Car seats can see many conditions on a day-to-day basis, including hot, cold, abrasions, spills, and wear from frequent getting in and out from the vehicle. Leather tape for car seats can help pull rips and tears together, protecting the cushioning underneath it, while also blending into the seats so it’s not very noticeable.
Key here would be to find a leather tape that if a close match to the color tone, and surface finish of the existing car seats. When chosen wisely and applied well, this can be an easy and effecitve fix for ripped or torn car seats.
Gray Leather Tape
When working with items beyond upholstery (which gray leather tape can work well for), such as jackets, gray leather tape can be a temporary or sometimes great permanent fix. Sewing is usually an option, though for small tears or a quick repair, tape can be perfect. It can also be cut down into smaller pieced depending on how or where it will be used.
Beige Leather Repair Tape
Beigh leather repair tape can be useful across upholstery, seating, luggage, clothing, and small accessories. As long as the color match is relatively close, this is a great way to apply a quick fix to small rips and tears.
Self-Adhesive Leather Tape
Most leather tape is self adhesive, this allows it to bind to torn or ripped areas of leather surfaces, or other materials, and hold together those repaired areas from further damage. Since it is self-adhesive, it makes application very fast and easy to do.
Real Leather Tape
While some leather tapes are made from plastics of vinyl, others can have a real, genuine, leather surface above the adhesive. This make it effective at holding rips and tears in place, while also having a a natural leather surface that matches the item being repaired, blending in smoothly.
When possible, using a real leather tape is the best option, and it is closest in look and feel to the original leather item being repaired.
Black Leather Tape/Black Leather Repair Tape
Black leather repair tape is likely the most common color for leather repairs. A lot of auto upholstery uses darker colors, and many leather jackets and accessories are also colored in shades of black. If you have a specific project to fix, or looking to have some handy in the shop, black is susually a useful color to have nearby.
Faux Leather Tape
Some leather items are made of faux leather; this might be due to preference for lower cost (faux leather is generally made from vinyls or plastics), need for water resiatance, or certain finishing textures or properties that can be easily applied to the surface.
Faux leather tape that closely matches the material being repaired will usually be most effective in making a repair that performs closely to the original material, and also looks most similar, so that the fix is not very noticeable. Faux leather tape is available in a wide variety of colors, widths, and textures.