. Art crafts for amateurs . upon by 85 would be suitable for blind tooling, while the back-ground around the foliage and beast might be punchedover so as to throw the design into relief. No. 76 might be considered somewhat rococo, but inendeavouring to get away from the class of design oneis familiar with onemust experiment. Itwould be easy tocarry out this for ablotter or music folio,and I think it wouldlook effective. Inusing insect formsin this way thegeneral shape of thecreature only is con-sidered, no referenceto a particular speciesbeing made. No. 78 is intendedto be emboss
. Art crafts for amateurs . upon by 85 would be suitable for blind tooling, while the back-ground around the foliage and beast might be punchedover so as to throw the design into relief. No. 76 might be considered somewhat rococo, but inendeavouring to get away from the class of design oneis familiar with onemust experiment. Itwould be easy tocarry out this for ablotter or music folio,and I think it wouldlook effective. Inusing insect formsin this way thegeneral shape of thecreature only is con-sidered, no referenceto a particular speciesbeing made. No. 78 is intendedto be embossed,coloured and lac-quered in the way ofthe old Spanish leathers. Quaint renderings of animalforms give interest and variety to a design, and if treatedquite simply and ornamentally need not frighten the amateuraway by fear of difficulty. A study of heraldic beasts willbe of use in showing how to simplify and ornamentalisenature. Besides book covers, many other objects can beworked in leather, such as jewel and other 1 12 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. Figures in decoration should, to a great extent, betreated as animal forms are—being simplified and thoughtof more as shapes than as representations of choosing children or cupids we escape many of thedifficulties inseparable from adults. There has been a revival of embossed and paintedleather for wall-coverings, screens, and other purposes, towhich old Spanish leathers are put, and I see no reasonwhy the amateur should not essay works of this kind. Thedifficulties are certainly not as great as they are in book-binding, for you have only to decorate flat pieces of leather—as the joining of these together, so as to cover a largesurface, only requires the care a paperhanger gives toexpensive wall-papers. The effect of the old Spanishleathers is due to two things, the rich colouring, in whichgilding plays an important part, and the embossing. Theleather had, I believe, a backing of thick paper glued on toit, and thi
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