. Art crafts for amateurs . s 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 lin
. Art crafts for amateurs . s 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, forwith comparatively simple means the most beautiful effects H m • it? j) r i Slate »■■ No. 65.—Example of Tooling, by Chis-wick School of Arts and Crafts. Thesuggestion of grotesque heads is veryskilfully managed. f>8 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. can be obtained, as a line or curve tooled on leather is initself a beautiful No. 66.—Inlaid Book Cover, designed by F. A. help out the tooling, small stamps cut in the shape of BOOKBINDING AND LEATHER WORK. 99 leaves, stars, flowers, and other simple forms are combining these in various ways considerable variety ofeffects can be wrought. As an example of elaborate inlaying No. 66 is a mostadmirable instance, and shows what can be done by askilled craftsman. It was shown in the recent ParisExhibition. I n this example we /Nvhave the tree and ^deer in dark y^y^m \morocco, whilethe rest of thecover is in a lightcolour. Theleaves are tooled,not example is atour de force, forthe difficulties inrendering theswans and waterwith its reflectionsare veiy consider-able, as they are executed with much skill. Whether binding should go sofar in a pictorial direction I will not decide. The lessambitious, more restrained work, is certainly more satisfyingto many of us. An example of repousse work on leather is seen
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