Leather Work

Leather has since primitive times contributed so
generally to the needs of man that to tell all the
phases of its history would be to retrace the slow,
laborious steps by which it rose from purely
utilitarian uses to its high position as an art
medium in medieval times, and to its general
adaptation to decorative purposes in the present. Such a study
would be most interesting to the general art student as well as
the craftsman, and would well repay the time given it, but
the scope of this book does not admit of more than a brief
summary of the progress of leather before passing to the
description of the work itself.