The Decoration of Leather
by Georges de Récy
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About this eBook
- Author
- Récy, Georges de
- Title
- The Decoration of Leather From the French of Georges de Récy
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Henry Gardiner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- NK: Fine Arts: Decorative and Applied Arts, Decoration and Ornament
- Subject
- Leatherwork
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 40286
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40286
- Release Date
- July 20, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE DECORATION OF LEATHER
- 2.TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT — FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.INTRODUCTION
- 6.CHAPTER I — TOOLS — CHOICE OF SKINS
- 7.CHAPTER II — TRACING THE DESIGN ON THE LEATHER — INCISING THE LEATHER — CUT OR ENGRAVED LEATHER — CARVED LEATHER — PUNCHES — HAMMERED LEATHER — MODELLED LEATHER — MODELLING TOOLS — EMBOSSING LEATHER — MODELLED LEATHER WITH PUNCHED BACKGROUND — POINTOGRAVURE — STAMPED LEATHER — OPEN-WORK LEATHER
- 8.CHAPTER III — LEATHER FOR GROUNDWORK — PREPARATION OF THE LEATHER FOR THE GROUNDWORK — MONOCHROME MOSAIC ON CALF — LEATHER FOR INLAYING — MOUNTING THE LEATHER ON PAPER — TRACING THE DESIGN ON THE PAPER — CUTTING OUT THE DESIGN — PASTING THE INLAY ON THE GROUNDWORK — SETTING IN THE INLAY — OUTLINING THE MOSAIC — POLYCHROME MOSAIC — POLYCHROME MOSAIC ON A MOROCCO GROUNDWORK — PASTING THE INLAY ON A MOROCCO GROUNDWORK — MOSAIC ON MODELLED LEATHER — INSERTED MOSAIC — MOSAIC IN RELIEF — INCRUSTED MOSAIC
- 9.CHAPTER IV — REDS — YELLOWS — BLUES — GREENS — DIFFERENT METHODS OF COLOURING LEATHER — SHADED GROUNDWORK — MARBLING — TREE MARBLING — SPRINKLING — GILDING
- 10.CHAPTER V
- 11.APPENDIX
- 12.NOTE
- 13.INDEX
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