. Art crafts for amateurs . NDING AND LEATHER WORK. HO would have thought a few yearsago that bookbinding could besuccessfully followed by amateurs,and yet most excellent work is exe-cuted, even in villages, under theauspices of the Home Arts Associ-ation, examples of which we see inNos. 4, 67, and 76, while such guilds as that of the WomenBinders and Chiswick School of Art, an example of whosework may be seen in No. 65, turn out work that is bothoriginal and craftsmanlike. The tooling on the cover ofThro1 the Looking Glass is very ingeniously contrived, besidesbeing symbolical of the contents
. Art crafts for amateurs . NDING AND LEATHER WORK. HO would have thought a few yearsago that bookbinding could besuccessfully followed by amateurs,and yet most excellent work is exe-cuted, even in villages, under theauspices of the Home Arts Associ-ation, examples of which we see inNos. 4, 67, and 76, while such guilds as that of the WomenBinders and Chiswick School of Art, an example of whosework may be seen in No. 65, turn out work that is bothoriginal and craftsmanlike. The tooling on the cover ofThro1 the Looking Glass is very ingeniously contrived, besidesbeing symbolical of the contents of the book. Not that thiscan always or often be done in such an emphatic manner asshown in this example, and purists I doubt not wouldobject to such a direct reference to the book itself in theornamentation of the covers, but an original note is after allwhat we are all waiting to hear. The ornamentation of leather may be divided into 1. Gold Tooling and work done with small stamps. 2. Inlaying. 3. Incising and BOOKBINDING AND LEATHER WORK. 97 m £ Of course the three may be combined in one cover, thoughas a rule only the two first are united. Poker work onleather is touched upon in Chapter XIII. The colouring or painting of leather cannot be said to bea development of the craft, but rather an addition to it, andit is a doubtful expedient adding paint to a book cover. However, as we shall touch upon paintedleathers in this chap-ter, we will leavefurther considerationuntil then. No. 65 is an ex-ample of pure tooling,where the lines form-ing the design arepressed into theleather with heatedtools and afterwardsgilded (though theymay be left plainor blind as it istermed). The toolingin this example iscarried very far, forit is made to render grotesque heads, and to accomplish this the craftsman mustbe very expert, as there is no altering wrong lines orretrieving mistakes, for a line once pressed into leather hasto remain. The binders skill is best shown in tooling, fo
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