Tooled Leather 
century, of this great art-craft and whose hand tooled 
and carved and otherwise decorated leathers for 
walls, furniture, screens, table covers etc., are so 
wonderfully in touch with the esprit of the anti(jue 
models from which they have studied and copied 
even the trained connoisseur to detect any difference. 
While students in most of the arts and crafts have 
increased and multiplied, there have been very few 
who were capable and patient enough, as well as 
gifted with the special understanding of it, to make a 
that in rooms where they have been given perhaps two 
or three strips of antique leather, or one or two chair 
seats as a motif, (no more of the antique being ob¬ 
tainable,) they have filled out the necessary quantity 
for the entire room or the whole assemblage of furni¬ 
ture so cleverly that it is impossible for the eye of 
lifework of this art-craft of tooling and decorating 
leather, but that the work is still done just as it was 
centuries ago, with the same designs, coloring and 
spirit, was demonstrated by the exhibits made at the 
exhibitions of the Architectural I.eague of New ^ ork, 
and other cities by the association of artists and 
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