The artist, or, Young ladies' instructor in ornamental painting, drawing, &c. : consisting of lessons in Grecian painting, Japan painting, oriental tinting, mezzotinting, transferring, inlaying, and manufacturing ornamented articles for fancy fairs (1835)
Gandee, B. F., author · London : Chapman and Hall ; Richmond : The author · leaf 314
242 WRITING FOLIOS. its flattening the embossed paper which is in- side, and then some heavy books may be placed on it for a day or two, until it has dried thoroughly and is quite firm. The drawings you intend to put may then be cut out to the form of the flat centre of the embossed boards, … put on by stitching it at the top and bottom of the leather ; afterwards the blotting paper may be cut out, and put under the ribbon, and to make it fit well, the corner of the paper where it passes under the ribbon should be cut off: the blotting paper should be about a quarter of an inch smaller…
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