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Show order that it may retain the engraved lines permanently. Water may be applied ap-plied with a brush, or the entire piece may be soaked in water for a few minutes The latter method is preferable, for unless un-less the water is brushed very evenly, w ater-marks will result, and even modeling model-ing will be difficult. After soaking, hang TOOLING LEATHER EASY AND USEFUL PASTIME Handsome Articles that can be Made at Small Expense and by Interesting Work tern. Transfer patterns are supposed to be used but once; but by actual trial the "Kub-Mc" patterns may be depended upon to make several good and distinct transfers. The leather should not be cut to exact size and shape until after the engraving en-graving has been done. It is advisable to fasten the leather to a board with thumb-tacks while doing the engraving, and these should be thrust through a margin beyond the design, that may be cut away afterward. In finishing, you should always make an extra allowance of one-quarter of an inch, to permit turning under, for a neater and more complete finish. The leather must Ik: made thoroughly damp before beginning the work, in for working. If, upon using the tool, drops of. water appear, or the tool scrapes over the leather, -it is too wet. Should it become too dry, while working, work-ing, the leather may be moistened with a sponge, brush or wet cloth. When the surface of the leather seems in proper prop-er condition, . lay the transfer design upon it and rub over the back of it, to transfer the lines. If a transfer pattern is not used, but the design is drawn upon up-on paper, place this paper over the leather and go over all the lines with an agate point (the tool sold for the purpose) or with the point of the ivory nail-file. Remove the paper, whether transfer design or drawn pattern, and go over all the lines on the leather with a pencil in order that they may be permanently per-manently fixed on the leather. Now go over all the lines with the bone point, bearing on sufficiently hard to sink the lines strongly. . Where a particularly heavy outline is desired, it may be cut with a penknife, then gone over again with the bone or agate point. When working, draw the tools' from left to right, or toward you. Different figures may have different treatment. Some may be outlined more heavily than others, to make variety in the complete design, but the outlining of each figure shold le of uniform dqith and strength. After the design is engraved en-graved the leather must be put aside for several days to dry thoroughly. Illustration 1. represents a coin purse with engraved design on the back only. The transfer pattern includes the piece for the underside, to form the pocket, which is to be stitched to the engraved piece, cut in one with the flap. This, too, may be made with raw edges, but will look neater and produce a better and more valuable purc if it is lined with silk, and the edges are neatly turned under and pasted before the two pocket pieces are sewed together. The fashionable purse of the moment ii lined with moire, but any scrap of silk may be used. It is applied to the inside of the leather with flour paste, spread over evenly and thinly; then the piece is put under a f lie of books, or other pressure i employed to keep it flat and smooth v. bile drying Mark off the turn-over-spacc of the leather, and with a sharp knife shave the wrong side of the leather leath-er edge, to make it as thin as possible. Paste this edge, turn it over evenly and straight to the silk lining and again put under IkkAs until it is dry, A ball and socket fastening, of the kind sold for skirt plackets, may lc sewed, Ihe ball to the' lining of the flap and the socket to the under pocket-piece of the purse. The card case, illvstrvii n III., has an entrrav-! Jriv;n on both the back and ihe flap. The figures of this de sign may be rubbed down and polished and the background left untouched The open space in the center of the design might have an initial or a monogram. A design fcr a reticule or shopping-bag shopping-bag is shown' at illustration IV. The floral figures should he heavily outlined and the background either stamped or polished. This bag will be very handsome hand-some if it is made of tan or brown leather, with the flowers tinted a dull orange and the leaves olive-green, using tapestry dyes. Pour a little of the dye into a clean saucer; add water, if necessary, neces-sary, to secure the desired tint. Try the color on paper or a scrap of leather. Wash in the color the same as for water-color. water-color. Do the coloring quickly, and do not make the leather too moist If the first tint is not deep enough, it must be allowed to dry before another in washed over it. This bag may have the two sides seamed together 111 an ordinary or-dinary seam on the inside. A larger and more convenient bag will result, however, if a strip of leather, Ions chough to reach down both sides and across the bottom of the bag, is stitched, one edge to one side portion of the bag. the other to the other, forming a strip about an inch and one-half wide between the two side sections. This is stitched with an ordinary narrow seam toward the inside. If you cannot conveniently cut so long a strip from the leather you havjc, it may be divided into three lengths, allowing for two of the pieces to have an end of each cut into a round or pointed end to be lapped over an.I stitched to the third piece. The seams around the side sections will le improved im-proved if a narrow welt of leather ij included in each. The bag should be lined with silk, and is drawn up by a ribbon, cord or thongs run through the ilits cut near the top. (y y. OOLF.D leather i a very Ppu-Kj Ppu-Kj lar and inexpensive branch of h arts and crafts work. Tools for modeling and stamping the leather may be purchased for a reasonable reason-able price at any art supply store. The r-ice, not quite certain of success or ltkii.j for the work, may even manage to avoid thii expense by substituting fn head of a steel crochet hook, a nut-i:?ik nut-i:?ik or similar pointed tool for the regular graver. An ivory or bone nail-f.l? nail-f.l? answers the purpose very nicely. The file portion is not used, but the feinted end of the ivory may be used for outlining the design, while the wide, Curved end is suitable for rubbing down and polishing the background. A nail-filc nail-filc of this kind may be purcased for five or ten cents, and will serve vrry well for a beginner experiments. In-Itrcl In-Itrcl in the work is certain to grow with each small piece completed, and then will come the desire to have the proper ton's, in order to do the very best kind of work. Initial expense of this kind often deters erne from attempting a new work, but the results produced by a makeshift tool frequently justify 3 ltriVPiCr tnJ comPlcle equipment. All leathern will not model well, as some are too soft for the pv:rpo;c. Russian Rus-sian calf is th-? best fcr modeling, and can be purchased by the foot, though a 1-rger quantity, or a smali hide cost much less per foot. Those parts of the skin nearest the backbone arc the best for modeling. The wrinkled parts at the edges of the skin can best be used for pockets of purses, backs of pen-wipers, lacings, etc. Before ap-plmg ap-plmg the design to the leather it is best to test the quality by dampening a small piece, and using the modeling tool upon it. If the leather is good the lines made upon il should remain. Designs may be successfully tooled on such objects ob-jects as purses, card cases, photograph frames, book-covers, mats, pcn-wipcrs, cut away afterward. In finishing, the for glasses, collar-boxes, handkerchief boxes, table mats, soft pillows, etc. Hard-finish sheepskin may be used for some purposes, and costs less than cither calf or goatskin. The actual working designs, somewhat some-what reduced in sire, arc illustrated here, as the working method in.iv be better described by reference to them than to the completed leather article. These transfer patterns are made bv a process which permits the transfer of the design to wood, leather or metal, in addition to the usual list of fabrics. No moisture or heat is required; the pattern is laid on the leather, facing it, and something smooth (the handle of a knife or jiapcr-cutter, ihe bowl of a upoon or similar surface) is rubbed over the design from the back of the pat- J CARD CASE the leather up to drain, then fasten it to a board bv driving thumb-tacks, or, lacking the?e,'small ordinary tacks, about lone inch apart" Try with the tool, oc-icaiionally, oc-icaiionally, to see if the 6urface is ready I DESIOS' F0K COIN riTRSE j I EHOrrUfG BA3 |