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A complete guide to ornamental leather work (1854)

Boston : James Munroe and Company · leaf 39

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33 TO ORNAMENTAL LEATHER WORK. HOPS. The Hop consists of numerous membraneous scales having the fruit within, and at their base ; with the fruit, however, we have nothing to do, as it is out of sight. The membraneous scales are the petals of the flower, and in the engraving (Fig. 1,) are twenty in… … No. 8. same size, and are cut out of skiver leather, the shape of the single petal (Fig. 2). 3

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