ttERAMIC STUDIO 
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PYROGRAPHY 
All designs lor Pyrography should be sent to Miss K. Livermore, 1010 Chapel 
St., New Haven, Ct.. who has charge of this department and will answer inquires 
in the Magazine. 
TO those interested in artistic work on leather the following 
suggestions from " Leather Work," by Leland, will be 
of interest: 
"There are in Saltzburg and also in the Vienna Museum, 
folio volumes, the covers of which are decorated with dragons 
and ornaments in cut leather." 
Anybody who can simply draw could execute these pat- 
terns perfectly, but these covers are so curious and beautiful 
that facsimiles of them are found in most European Museums. 
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Take a piece of fine hard saddle leather and draw on it a 
figure in outline with the point of a penknife, cut a very fine 
line just entering the surface, little more than a mere scratch. 
When this is done apply a fine tracer, which is like a bent awl 
or wire, and which may be made with a piece of knitting needle 
set in a handle. All the dampening required for this work is a 
very sparing use of the sponge. 
When the outlines are completed and the work is quite 
dry, take a fine water color brush and with care paint any 
color you please into the lines. The ground may be slightly 
matted or stamped if desired. 
Form outlines in the usual way. Put in any background 
desired, according to the object decorated ; stain the jonquils 
yellow, the leaves a yellow green. 
Katherin Livermore. 
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ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES 
Miss F. — We know of 110 work on the history of Pyrography and have 
made inquiries at several publishing houses. The Butterick Publishing 
Co. issues a small booklet on pyrography, but it can scarcely be called a 
history as it refers only in a remote way to the early art. 
If any of our subscribers know of any books, magazines or newspaper 
articles on this subject we would be glad to have them inform us. 
