Plastic welder: My new favorite tool.

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I have an old vinyl repair kit from the 80s that has a few grain patterns and I used one of those. It didn't need much since I made most of the joints along the edges. Unless it's in a larger visible area, an old piece of vinyl seat material can be used to approximate a pattern.
how do you get the grain into it from the vinyl? Heat it and press on to use like stencil?