Leather work.

  • Rural Industries Bureau (London, England)
Date:
[between 1930 and 1939?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Leather work. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The best material should be used. Small skins are the best, and it will be generally cheaper in the long run to pay a little extra for selected skins rather than take inferior ones. Useful Books. The following books will be found useful for reference. They deal fully with the various processes which have been briefly described in these notes : — Leather Work, “Best Way’ Series, No. 115; published by Fashions for All Ltd., The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4. Price 6d. *Leather Work, by Adelaide Mickel ; obtainable from B. T. Batsford Ltd., 94, High Holborn, London, W. C.l. Price 4/6. *Embroidered and Laced Leather Work, by Ann Macbeth ; published by Methuen & Co., Ltd., 36, Essex Street London, W.C.2. *Designs in Leather Work with Working Patterns, by F. H. Reid ; published by B. T. Batsford, Ltd. Price 2/6. *Leathers, Skins and Tools for Artistic Leather Work, published by George & Co., 21a, Noel Street, Berwick Street, Soho, London, W.l. Price 1/-. * Leather Work, by C. G. Leland ; published by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 39, Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2. Price 5/-. *Glove Making, by Isabel M. Edwards ; published by G. W. Russell & Sons, Hitchin. Price 1/3. Guide to Glove Making at Home, by C. M. E. Balfour ; published by B. W. Leather Co., Grayshott, Hants. Price 3d. Glove Making at Home, by Mrs. Staite, 926, Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham. Price 3/-. *The Manufacture of Fancy Leather Goods, by J. T. Luckock ; published by the Anglo-American Technical Co., Ltd., Price 10/-. *Decorative Leather Work, by D. P. Wylie; published by Longman’s, Green & Co., 39, Paternoster Row, London, E.C. 4. Price 7/6. *Leather Work with Suede and other soft Leathers, by E. Mochrie ; published by Dryad Handicrafts, 42, St. Nicholas Street, Leicester. Price 4/6. *Leather Craft, by G. J. Shaw ; published by Dryad Handi¬ crafts. Price 4/-. ♦These books are obtainable on loan from the Bureau’s Library. Terms and particulars may be had on application to the Director, Rural Industries Bureau, 27, Bedford Square, London, W.C. 1.