INDEX

Previous
: choice of, for marbled leather, 77
: choice of, for modelled leather, 77
in leather hangings and furniture, 82-84
: Japanese school of, 79
: study of, 79
Design and colour: choice of, 76-79
Dijon Museum: examples of carved leather in, 14, 27
Dollage de gants padding, 34
Dyes, 64-74
: aniline, stability of, 64
: superposed, 65, 68, 76
: uncertain effect of, on leather, 77
: vegetable, stability of, 64
Embossed leather, see Modelled leather
Encaustic: rubbing leather with, 65, 72-73
England: manufacture of leather hangings and furniture in, 83, 85
Engraved leather, see Cut leather
Europe: introduction of decorated leather into, 13, 14, 80
Flanders: manufacture of leather hangings and furniture in, 83, 85
France
: introduction of gilt or silvered leather hangings into, 85
: manufacture of leather hangings and furniture in, 85
: popularity of leather hangings and furniture in, 84
Garlande: Jehan de, author, 80
Germany: leather decoration in, 14
Ghadames: leather industry at, 80
Gilding, 74-75, 80-81, 83, 86
: bookbinders’ tools for, 75
: decline of art, 84-86
outline of incrusted mosaic, 63
: process described by Theophilus, 80-81
Gilt leather chairs, 84
Gilt or silvered leather hangings and furniture, 84, 85-86
Gilt panel for painting on, 87-88
Gloves for protecting hands from dyes, 68
Glycerine
: colours based on, 67
inks, 72
Gobelin tapestries: leather hangings and furniture replaced by, 84
Gold, 68, 83
groundwork: origin of, 87
leaf, 28, 74-75, 83
leaf: brush for, 42, 58, 59
: grain of, 17
groundwork: pasting inlay on, 59
groundwork: polychrome mosaic on, 58-59
groundwork: tool for sticking inlay on, 59, 60
: paring, for inlay of polychrome mosaic, 58-59
: tanning materials used for, 15
Mosaic, 16, 42-63
bookbinding, 14
: calf leather for, 43, 56
: colouring leather for, 42, 69
: cutting out inlay for, 46-49
for coffers, 78
: incrusted, 62-63
: incrusted, cutting out, 62-63
: incrusted, gilding outline of, 63
: incrusted, outlining, 63
: incrusted, tracing design for, 62
in relief, 61-62
in relief: carving, 61, 62
in relief: colouring, 62
in relief: cowhide for, 61
in relief: cutting out inlay for, 61
in relief: depressing groundwork for inlay of, 61
in relief: leather for, 61
in relief: modelling, 61
in relief: tracing design for, 61
: inserted, 59-60
: inserted, incising leather for, 60
: inserted, outlining, 60
: leather for groundwork of, 17, 42-43
: leather for inlay of, 45
: monochrome, on calf, 45
: morocco leather as groundwork of, 42, 58, 59
: mounting inlay on paper lining for, 45-46
on modelled leather, 59
on modelled leather: paring leather for, 59
: outlining, 52-56
: pasting inlay on groundwork for, 49-50, 59
: paring leather for, 43-44
: pincers for, 50
: polishing, 56, 57
: polychrom class="pginternal">71
on flesh side of leather, 32, 33
Tracing-point, 15, 20
Tree marbling, 70
: brush for, 70
Turmeric, 66
Van Orley, painter, 83, 87-88
Vaporiser for sprinkling, 71
Varnish
: recipe for golden (Boudaroy), 86-87
: recipe for golden (Theophilus), 88
: rubbing leather with, 72-73
: use of, with powder colours, 73-74
Vegetable dyes: stability of, 64
Vellum, 16
: characteristics and methods of decorating, 18
in bookbinding, 18
Venice
: introduction of modelled and stamped leather into, 14
: manufacture of leather hangings and furniture in, 83, 85
Vermilion: Chinese, 74
Water-colours, 67
Wax
for modelling, 33-34
padding, 34
: rubbing leather with, 72-73
Wheels
: outlining, 15, 35, 54, 56, 63
: patterns produced with, 35
Xanthin, 65
Yellows, 66
Zinc: chromate of, 66

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