Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Leather Work - A Practical Manual for Learners
    Leather Work - A Practical Manual for Learners
    Leather Work - A Practical Manual for Learners
    Ebook145 pages52 minutes

    Leather Work - A Practical Manual for Learners

    By Charles G. Leland

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    This antique text comprises a comprehensive and practical manual for aspiring students of leatherworking, complete with many illustrations and original designs by the author. A wonderfully detailed and helpful guide for beginners and intermediate leatherworkers, this book is a must-read for the discerning student and is well deserving of a place in any collection of antiquarian leatherworking literature. Chapters contained herein include: 'Tools and Materials'; 'Outlining with Tracer or Wheel, and Indenting or Grounding'; 'Outlining Relief by Undercutting and Stuffing'; 'Working up in Relief of Moulding with Tools'; 'Moulding, Stamping and Working in Cuir-Bouilli of Soft Leather'; 'Modelling in Cardboard or Fret-Sawed Moulds'... and many more. We are proud to republish this text here complete with a new prefatory introduction on the subject.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473356634
    Leather Work - A Practical Manual for Learners

    Read more from Charles G. Leland

    Related to Leather Work - A Practical Manual for Learners

    Related ebooks

    Crafts & Hobbies For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Craft A Leather Belt

      Aug 10, 2018

      Craft A Leather Belt
      7 min read

    • Article

      Attack Line Leather

      Nov 1, 2021

      Attack Line Leather
      4 min read

    • Article

      How to Make Your Own MOCCASINS

      May 11, 2018

      How to Make Your Own MOCCASINS
      8 min read

    • Article

      Leatherwork Is His Passion

      Dec 1, 2022

      Leatherwork Is His Passion
      5 min read

    • Article

      Craft a Better Leather Apron

      Nov 9, 2018

      Craft a Better Leather Apron
      6 min read

    • Article

      Make Your Own Moccasins

      May 16, 2020

      Make Your Own Moccasins
      2 min read

    • Article

      Carefully Crafted

      Mar 6, 2020

      Carefully Crafted
      2 min read

    • Article

      Carving Claw Feet

      Mar 7, 2023

      It’s safe to say that the highlight of the Newport tea table is the legs that support it. That’s because at the base of those legs resides wonderfully carved claw feet. So to help you make the tea table dazzle, we’ll walk you through what it takes to

      4 min read

    • Article

      Coblentz Leather LTD.

      Apr 30, 2020

      Coblentz Leather LTD.
      4 min read

    • Article

      Laser-engraved Box

      May 4, 2020

      Laser-engraved Box
      4 min read

    • Article

      Carolina On My Mind

      Mar 1, 2023

      Carolina On My Mind
      7 min read

    • Article

      Music City Leather

      Dec 1, 2021

      Music City Leather
      6 min read

    • Article

      Viking Armor For A Viking

      Aug 1, 2019

      Viking Armor For A Viking
      2 min read

    • Article

      Multi-Function Shavehorse

      Jan 7, 2020

      Multi-Function Shavehorse
      8 min read

    • Article

      How to Make a Coin Pouch

      Jun 1, 2022

      How to Make a Coin Pouch
      3 min read

    • Article

      Bee Natural Leathercare®

      Dec 1, 2020

      Bee Natural Leathercare®
      4 min read

    • Article

      Leather by DRAGONFLY

      Oct 13, 2022

      When I step into my shop, a few things happen each and every time — so much that they’re nearly primal instincts. In one motion, I flip all the lights on and slip my shop apron off its hook. My apron goes on, and it’s off to work. For the last severa

      4 min read

    • Article

      How To Tan A Deer Hide

      May 11, 2018

      How To Tan A Deer Hide
      9 min read

    • Article

      KEEPSAKE Box

      Nov 15, 2021

      KEEPSAKE Box
      5 min read

    • Article

      “AH, WILDERNESS!” Alkahest Moccasins & Leathercrafts

      Aug 1, 2019

      Eight years ago, on a fine spring day, Dustin Lyons and Tiera Ptacek set out on a life-changing, 350-mile odyssey, driving from San Francisco to Ashland, Oregon, in a tiny, Chevy Geo Metro. “We had it packed with pretty much everything we owned,” Dus

      8 min read

    • Article

      Invest

      Dec 12, 2017

      Invest
      6 min read

    • Article

      Hide To Seek

      Mar 10, 2021

      When out on a shoot day, I am often asked where my gun slip is from. I proudly reply that it was made in my grandfather’s leather goods factory on the border between Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire. A well-made gun slip really is a masterpiece of c

      4 min read

    • Article

      Invest

      Oct 12, 2018

      Invest
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Leather Work - A Practical Manual for Learners

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Leather Work - A Practical Manual for Learners - Charles G. Leland

      LEATHER WORK.

      TOOLS AND MATERIALS.

      EATHER Work is one of the most fascinating of the minor or decorative arts; many persons who have practised them all give it the preference; some consider it is easier than metal-embossing and wood-carving, and really more remunerative. A careful perusal of this work cannot fail to convince the reader that any person of ordinary intelligence who can draw a little, or even enlarge or reduce patterns mechanically, can master it sufficiently well to turn the results to profitable account.

      As regards designs, it has been found after a considerable experience that the simplest, even such as a child can be easily trained to make, are by far the best for most work, and that the worst patterns are the very elaborate and difficult. This will plainly appear from the examples which will be given. Those who wish to learn how to design original patterns in the easiest manner are advised to study the Manual of Drawing and Design, a cheap little book especially adapted to leather work and similar arts. (London, Whittaker and Co.)

      For the simplest leather work very few and cheap implements are required even to make very attractive objects. I have seen a good frame well stamped with only a paper-knife for tracer, and a stamp cut with a penknife by making cross bars on the end of a bit of wood. But for thorough work the following should be provided:

      Fig. 1. TRACING WHEELS.

      Tracing wheels. No. 1 is a little wheel about the size of a threepenny piece; Nos. 2 and 3 are smaller. They should have a smooth dull edge, and be strongly made. Their object is to run lines or indent them in the leather. They are useful for rapid work. There is also the spur-wheel used to prick out patterns, and the dot-wheel, which makes a dotted stamped line on the damp leather.

      Fig. 2. COMMON TRACER.

      Fig. 3. SPADE POINTS, ETC.

      Common tracer. This is precisely like the end of a screwdriver, but it is on a piece of steel like a nail, Fig. 2. It is identical with the tracer used in repoussé brass work. Many use it instead of the wheel.

      The spade-point. This resembles an eraser, but has a dull edge. It is used for a tracer, moulder, etc. An ivory or horn paper-knife with one end cut to a point is also useful for the same purpose.

      Fig. 4. AWL TRACER.

      The awl-tracer. This is a fine point curved, used for tracing lines in cut leather work.

      Matts, stamps or indenters. These are very important. They are pieces of iron or steel like very large nails or spikes. The ends are cut into many forms to produce impressions. No. 1 is half an inch in breadth, and is in hollows of different sizes, so as to produce the irregular granulated appearance of Turkey morocco. No. 2 is cross-hatched like an office seal. A fine round point like an ° is used in Vienna for delicate work in hard leather. Most pupils will be able to make stamps for themselves with bits of nail rod, or even the ends of large nails filed across. As I have said, a good stamp, which will corrugate a ground perfectly well, can be cut with a penknife on the end of a bit of wood.

      Fig. 5. MATTS OR STAMPS.

      Moulders. These are tools of differently shaped points used to mould, indent, or press the softened leather into shape, as for instance, to round and turn the leaves of flowers. With these may be included the cup and ball-tools of repoussé work, the former of which are round rods having their centres hollowed out like a cup, so that when pressed on the leather they leave a round projecting hemisphere, while the latter make a similar depression or

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1