A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 265
PAINTING UPON LEATHER Painting upon leather is carried much farther in connection with stamping and gilding, in the preparation of the remarkable wall-hangings of the seventeenth century, reproduced, or restudied, … Fig. 74. Binding, vellum, painted in vivid colors and with gilding applied on the smooth surface, without impression in the nineteenth, and still (1904) in process of improvement at the hands or a very few skilled workmen. The Japanese have used the same process, and again have imitated in tough…
Art · Decorative arts
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