Leathercraft, Leather Working - 4 eBooks On CD

4 Leather Working Books

1. Revell's Complete Guide To Ornamental Leather Work  written in 1853 (96 pages).  "All leather to be used in Modelling Leaves, Flowers, &c., must be first wetted, and modelled while wet ; and as this is a general rule, the student will understand that mention of the necessity of this operation will not in every instance be repeated. Glasses of varied form, as jelly glasses and oldfashioned goblets, as well as many of modern manufacture, can be covered on the outside with Leather Work Lilies of the Valley, and other such flowers, being trailled round a groundwork of leaves, and being eithei gilded or stained, look exceedingly well; and as the\ are capable of holding water, become really useful at well as ornamental articles for bouquets of flowers."

2. Cowie's Bookbinder Manual, 1860 (146 pages), "Containing a Full Descripton of Leather and Vellum Binding; Directions For Gilding Of Paper and Book Edges; and Numerous Valuable Recipes; Sprinkling, Colouring and Marbling."

3. Historical Carvings in Leather: A Lost Art Reclaimed by Dr. W.M. Allen Maddox in 1940 (361 pages). "During the depression years between 1929 and 1932 I found that my time was not valuable, and so I started the work of carving. I enjoyed this hobby so much I continued it up unto the present time.  I find it so interesting that I wish others to know about it. This why I am putting the work in written form - I hope others may enjoy and learn the art of leather carving as I have."

4. The Making of Leather, a Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature, 1914 (167 pages). "This book must in no sense be taken as a manual of the art of leather manufacture, and many reasons working details have been purposely avoided except where they seem necessary to the understanding of principles."

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