A complete guide to ornamental leather work (1854)
Boston : James Munroe and Company · leaf 50
44 A COMPLETE GUIDE ROSES. A Wild Rose is made by cutting out two pieces of leather, exactly as in the engraving, putting the wire through two holes made in the centre of the pieces with a fine bradawl, and pass a piece of wire through the holes, leaving … both ends of the wire at the back to be twisted for the stalk. To form the stamina, cut fine strips of leather as long again as the stamina are required to be, and insert them under the eye of the wire which forms the stalk ; then cut the stamina, and pinch them up into form ; the top piece,…
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