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Learn Secrets of Working with Leather: Hobby or Profit

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Working with Leather:
The Art & Craft of Leather

    

Learn the Secrets of Working with Leather:

Use your skills to create beautiful and functional Leather items for Fun or for Profit!

Why not turn your hobby into a business - ideal work from home and sell on ebay or craft and market stalls!


   1 - Practical Workings of Leather Manufature:
        By JOHN W STEVENS (1890) 280 pages.

Includes: Oil, Shoe Grain, Imitation Goat and Calf, Bright Oil, English and American Boot Grain, Hand and Machine sewn welt, Glove Grain, Flesh Splits, Harness Leather. Together with numerous valuable recipes and miscellaneous matter specially adapted to Leather Manufacture.

   2 - The Application of Oils and Greases to Leather:
        J.R BOCKLEY M.Sc. (1919) 130 pages.

This Text presents information regarding the application of oils and greases to leather and deals with the different phases of leather chemistry and practical tanning.

   3 - Cowie's Bookbinders Manual:
        George Cowie (1860) 144 pages.

A Full description of Leather and vellum binding, directions for gilding of paper and book edges and information on sprinkling, colouring and marbling.

   4 - Leather For Libraries:
        By Hulme, Parker, Seymour-Jones & Williamson. (1905) 73 pages.

Contents: History of Sumach Tanning, Degradation of Leather, Causes of decay in Bookbinding Leather, Characteristics of Bookbinding Leather, Repairing and Binding of Books.

   5 - A Complete Guide to Ornamental Leather Work:
        written by J Revell (1853) 104 pages.

Includes sections on: The Materials, Making Leaves, stems, Frames, Border work, etc. - All aspects of intricate Ornamental Leather work is examined in detail.

   6 - Leather Craft: The Hobby Craft Series:
        written by W. JOHNSON AND L. NEWKIRK (1945) 120 pages.

Contents: Materials to use, Leatherworking Tools and Accessories, Working with Leather, and Things to Make:

All of the leathercraft projects in this book can be done with simple hand tools. The projects have been selected to provide ample opportunity to learn the fundamentals of leather work and to give the students ample opportunity to create designs to suit their own interests.

The projects are arranged in relative order of difficulty with the simpler ones first.

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   7 - The making of leather:
        written by HENRY R. PROCTER (1914) 180 pages.

A guide to the art of Lather Manufacture and Making your own workable leather.

   8 - Historical Carvings in Leather -
        A Lost Art Reclaimed:
        written by WILLIAM ALLEN MADDOX (1940) 380 pages.

Contents includes: history of fine leather, its romance and importance to mankind A brief history of Historical Carvings and The art of carving.

This Truly is an amazing collection of Reference Material designed give you all the information you need to begin working with Leather!

PLUS!
An additional Reference containing:

How to Cut Leather
How to Make a Leather Book Cover
How to Make a Leather Dog Collar
How to Make a Leather Pouch
How to Choose Leather
How to Make a Leather Bracelet
How to Make a Leather Game Board
How to Make a Pair of Moccasins
How to Sew a Double Needle Stitch on Leather
How to Tool Leather
How to Sew a Tunnel Stitch on Leather
How to Paint Leather
How to Make a Leather Keychain Fob
How to Make a Leather Belt
How to Make a Braided Leather Belt
How to Dye Leather
How to Choose Leather-Working Tools
plus many more!

If you have an interest in the art of working with Leather then this collection of guides is just what you have been looking for...

All this for only $8.99 

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