Tooled Leather 
send as many full sized examples of their beautiful 
leathers for inspection as may be necessary to convey 
a thorough conception of the work. 
The illustrations of this article are made from the 
work of the Baisden-Bragdon-Webb Company and 
while the description of the coloring of these specific 
objects, conveys comparatively, inadequately an idea 
of the richness and beauty of their softly modulated 
and intermingled tones, it serves to indicate but one 
of the many treatments and handlings of which each 
design is capable. The work was all executed for 
orders and therefore to harmonize with the atmos¬ 
phere of the rooms where they were to be used. 
Screen — “Renaissance” Design. —On a ground of 
rich, golden brown, illuminated, the tooled design is 
worked out in rich but subdued, lustrous golds and 
delicate suggestion of colors, while the fruits and 
flowers are done in the effects of Roman enamels, 
glazed to a wonderful depth and softness of effect. 
A Table Mat: Hand Carved and Tooled Design .— 
The design being carved and tooled on the natural 
color of the hide is merely glazed with tones to enrich 
its tan and brown effects, while the surrounding 
ground of leather is oil dyed in a dull, bluish green. 
A Round Table Mat: Hand Tooled and Burnished 
Effects. —On a heavily grained leather, the ground is 
a deep, rich brown and the design, worked up in 
rich, dull golds, overlays a ground of deep, illumi¬ 
nated green. These mats are made to order for all 
size and shape tables or desks and, of course, in 
color schemes to suit the requirements. 
Screen—“Old English” Design. — On a ground 
of mottled green, illuminated by being laid over 
pure silver leaf, the main design is worked out in 
great variety of tooling in antique bronzed gold 
while the foliage and flowers are done in olives, dull 
reds and blues and oxidized silver, having in many 
places the effect of Byzantine enamels, on copper, 
and infinitely rich without garishness. 
Screen — “Old hleniish” Design. — On a ground of 
mottled, quiet, old gold the main design is worked up 
in rich golds and browns and the fruits in the cornu¬ 
copias etc., are done in shades of greens and dull 
reds. 
All these decorative leathers vary in color scheme 
and effects produced as well as in design, from the 
richest designs all over the leather, down to simple 
lines of bordering etc., and from the dullest, most 
antique effects of the old Spanish and Flemish 
leathers up to the rich and sometimes almost opulent 
colorings demanded by present day decorative 
schemes, but always there is the softening influence 
of the glazings, the tonings and the art that makes 
them perfect. Besides the hand tooled and carved 
leathers the Baisden-Bragdon-Webb Company exe¬ 
cute many orders for the hand painted leathers of 
the Spanish, Vernis Martin and Watteau type which 
are greatly admired by art lovers and have the stamp 
of approval of the best known critics. They are 
generally done on gold grounds, more or less dull, 
and sometimes the ground is plain and again it is 
covered entirely over with a tooling that gives a 
diaper effect in the open spaces where the design is 
not painted. 
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