MOSAIC ON MODELLED LEATHER
The remarks on paring leather for polychrome mosaic apply also to paring the leather for covering a design in relief. An extra margin is left round the edges, which are “slashed” with the tool, so that they may better embrace the form of the modelling, the finer details of which are not worked until afterwards. The leather is first placed dry in position over the modelling, and smoothed over with a modeller, so that it takes the form of the relief. It will then be seen how much should be cut from the edges, so that it may exactly fit into the outline when it is pasted on.