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136, either corresponding or of two shades, would be pretty colors.

Fig. 33.

Fig. 34 is a book cover to be made in heavy leather worked in relief as directed above.

TO PAINT LEATHER.

Select leather that has been thoroughly well dressed, draw upon it with a chalk pencil the subject to be painted, and size all over the design. Use the common size bought at an ordinary oil and color shop, melted over the fire and used warm. Paint with ordinary tube oil colors, mixing the colors as for oil painting, and adding to each some japanners' gold size as a dryer. When it is only required to turn the leather black, and it has previously been well dressed, it will be so well impregnated with the astringent parts of oak bark as only to