Article: Tooling Leather
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Tooling Leather
Tooling Leather / Art Work
Use vegetable-tanned, light-colored top-grained leather for tooling leather. If you?re not sure what you have, test the leather?s ability to take a pattern by wetting a corner and making lines with different objects like the edge of a coin.
When working with a large piece of tooling leather, tape or glue something to the back to prevent the leather from stretching when you are working on it.
The first step involves cutting a design into the leather, followed by creating depressions with various tools that result in elements of the design presenting a raised surface.
Tooling leather is done before it is painted or dyed. If the leather becomes dry while you are working on it, moisten with a damp sponge. If...
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