. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 67.—Repousse Leather, by the KirbyLonsdale Class, under Messrs. Harris. ioo ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. followed in the embossing. Very excellent effects are to beobtained in this way, and it does not present the difficultiesthat gold tooling does, as the tooling in No. 67 is shall deal with this work and developments of it sub-sequently. We have a combination of tooling and embossing in. No. 68.—Bookbinding, designed and executed by Miss J. example of tooling stamping with figure panel in repousse. No. 68, by Miss Birkenruth, who is always or
. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 67.—Repousse Leather, by the KirbyLonsdale Class, under Messrs. Harris. ioo ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. followed in the embossing. Very excellent effects are to beobtained in this way, and it does not present the difficultiesthat gold tooling does, as the tooling in No. 67 is shall deal with this work and developments of it sub-sequently. We have a combination of tooling and embossing in. No. 68.—Bookbinding, designed and executed by Miss J. example of tooling stamping with figure panel in repousse. No. 68, by Miss Birkenruth, who is always original inher bindings, and the resources of her craft are wellshown in this example. The fish, by being left plainon a punched or powdered ground, have almost the BOOKBINDING AND LEATHER WORK. ior effect of being inlaid. This dotting of leather adds, asit were, another colour to the binding, for it seems toveil the leather and give it a bloom. Punches of variousdesigns are employed to produce these backgrounds, andwhen rightly used are very helpful. The combination of colour to embossing may be seen inNo. 69. The Spanish carried the treatment of embossedand painted leather as far as it ever has been taken in theirwall coverings, and it will be better to consider the subjectwhen treating of this class of work. Mr. and Miss MacColl have introduced a new techniqueinto tooling by using a wheel to produce not only strai
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