. Art crafts for amateurs . amps 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 inrende
. Art crafts for amateurs . amps 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 inNo. 67. The design is beaten out from the back, beingfirst tooled on the front to give the outline which is to be. 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
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