corner and depression. To do this successfully, you must begin at the centre and work outwards in all sides When finished, the leather should look as if the ornaments had been originally moulded from it. Draw the leather over the edges and paste it down on the wrong side. Cover the under side with a piece of skiver, glueing it neatly on. The ground between the ornaments can be indented with a cross hatched punch if desired. Should your leather become dry, moisten it with a sponge.
To make a round box, the core should be made round a wooden cylinder, the ornamentation being either modelled by hand, or else cut out and glued on as described for the plate above. The bottom of the box can either be moulded on the cylinder, thus making the box in one piece, or can be cut out and glued on afterwards. Slip the core off the cylinder and cover with damp skiver as directed. Form the cover in the same way. A piece of thick card-board projecting above the box should be fitted into it to hold the cover on.
Tankards can be made in the same way over cylindrical cones of wood. Handles can be fitted on if desired, made of leather waste and rolled. If the glue used in making the core have bi-chromate of potash mixed with it, the papier maché will be water-proof. If instead of a papier maché core solid boiled leather be used, the tankards will be serviceable for holding liquids.
Quivers, shot flasks, and horns are all suitable subjects for leather work, and varied designs can be found in many books of antiquities. Bonbonnières of all sorts can be manufactured from papier mache and then painted, varnished or inlaid. China figures can be bought at the toy stores on which these can be moulded. When necessary, the papier maché can be cut apart, and afterwards sewn or glued together. A little study of some of the bonbonnières now furnished will enable any
