I'll let you in to a little secret.....*whispers*...That was a really easy repair but it looks very impressive due to the scale of it.
Any one of you on here could do the same. You can see how I did it.
Fran...the most important thing to check is the quality of the skin.
If your coats have tears similar to the one on this, then just insert a needle (I used a needle specifically for leather) into the edge of the skin and you'll be able to feel if it's deteriorated and brittle/dry/too thin, because the needle will tear away and you'll clearly see you won't be able to do a repair like this one.
Also, if you find there are little bits of the skin torn away and you have a hole?...Sorry...wouldn't know how to advise you on that.
Otherwise Fran...
Go on...you can do it!
When I left school, back in the 80's, I worked with a lovely lady, Mary, who did these sort of repairs on furs. I can't remember where she'd worked in the past but she always got these jobs to do when they came in the shop.
Some of them were pretty disgusting...proper moth-eaten, with moth eggs and larvae included.
I'm OK with a basic repair like this one, but I'm no furrier.
What the hell happened to cause that much damage?!!!!
I'm not sure, but there is a fastener loop missing on that side, somewhere in the middle of that tear. I suspect it must have ripped from that point.
I haven't bothered to do anything with the fasteners. The customer only mentioned the rip, and I don't want to make work for myself which I've not been asked to do.
The hook side of the fasteners all appear to be broken, and there's the one missing on the repaired side.
BYW a nice leather jacket Imself bought me one Christmas ripped a month ago down from the pocket welt type thing, Can you do anything ???
It all depends? Need to see it.
It's probably a 'no' if I would need to get it under the sewing machine at all because I no longer have an industrial, so can't stitch thick leather.
Where I used to work, we used to do 'glue' repairs on some leathers to fix tears...some worked better than others, but as you say it's from a pocket... so I'm not sure if it would hold.
Sandra.
xxx