Identifier: artcraftsforamat00mill (find matches)
Title: Art crafts for amateurs
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Fred, decorative artist
Subjects: Decorative arts Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York, London, Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ld.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ing punchedover with disc punches; and they should not be as small asthose used on a book cover, as the surface to be decoratedis so much greater. The foliage part of the design, as willbe noticed, is an ornamental treatment of a tree planned asa series of scrolls, and could be continued indefinitely. Adado of a library or smoking room would look very richdecorated with leathers ; so, too, would a screen. A designplanned to repeat in much the same way as a wall-paperdoes, or as the old Spanish leathers did, would be suitable,as it materially lessens the work of having to sketch eachsection separately. In some examples of coloured leather I saw at a friendshouse the pigment was partially wiped off, and the warmyellow of the cowhide showing through produced a veryrich and harmonious effect. There is plenty of room for experiments in colouringleather, as the Screen No. 69 shown at the Paris Exhi-bition evidences, for here we have a work in which tooling, BOOKBINDING AND LEATHER WORK. 115
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No. 78.—Suggested design for embossed leather Wall Hangings. Thedotted lines show where the joins might be made. The animalforms to be in relief. This design could also be treated in pokerwork. u6 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. embossing and colouring are blended. The effect of theboats on the water is highly pictorial, and yet the materialitself is considered, as the clouds have a blind tooled outlineand the water is treated ornamentally. It is hardly necessary to say that leather to be colouredshould be light, as then the colouring can be semi-trans-parent so that the surface on which you work plays its partin the finished effect. Of other methods of colouring mention may be made ofapplying colour to the under-surface of vellum, which, beingsemi-transparent, allows of the colouring being seenthrough the vellum. With the three processes of tooling, incising and: embossing, either employed singly or in combination,the craftsman has great resources at command, and a veryvaried class of eff

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