Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . AAAAAAAA ninnnnnrvvirvTvvTVTT Plate XII—EDGINGS FOR BOOKCASES AND TABLES 434 TOOLED AND ILLUMINATED LEATHERS smooth, they are cut to fit the engravers block or die, usually aboutsixteen by twenty-three inches. Then the side where the hair was,which is smoother and firmer than the other, is sized with great care;and lea
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . AAAAAAAA ninnnnnrvvirvTvvTVTT Plate XII—EDGINGS FOR BOOKCASES AND TABLES 434 TOOLED AND ILLUMINATED LEATHERS smooth, they are cut to fit the engravers block or die, usually aboutsixteen by twenty-three inches. Then the side where the hair was,which is smoother and firmer than the other, is sized with great care;and leaves of silver about three and one-fourth inches square areapplied and beaten home with a foxs tail. The parts of the surfacethat are to be gold or red or blue are varnished with the properlacquers. The one that produces gold is a light brown (Fougerouxgives the receipt for making it), and the result is so much like goldthat even an expert must examine closely to tell the difference. Goldleaf is seldom used, because it costs too much, but sometimes imitationgold leaf (copper), or imitation silver leaf (tin) are the reliefs received from the block or die in the press, otherornament is often tooled in from chisels or patterned punches calledirons. The pat
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