Gold cushion. A cushion of leather on which the finisher cuts gold leaf into pieces.
Gold knife. The knife for cutting the gold leaf; long and quite straight.
Gold leaf. Gold beaten into very thin leaves, occasionally used for printing purposes, but more particularly for the decoration of book covers.
Gouge. A gilding tool cut to impress a curved line or segment of a circle upon the leather.
Grain. The term applied to the outer side of a piece of leather, from which the hair was removed. This word is also used in describing the different kinds of surface given to leather in the making, often with a qualifying adjective, as, seal-grain, like the grain on sealskin; coarse grain; pebble-grained, that is, grained in an irregular manner, as though numerous small pebbles of different sizes had been pressed upon its surface; water grain; smooth grain; brass board grain, usually put into cowskin, etc.
Graining. The process of giving to leather surfaces of different kinds.
Grater. An iron instrument used by the forwarder for rubbing backs after they are paste-washed.
Grolier style. An interlaced framework of geometrical figures—circles, squares, and diamonds—with scrollwork running through it, the ornaments of which are of moresque character, generally azured in whole or in part, sometimes in outline only. Parts of the design are often studded with gold dots. Time, first half of the sixteenth century.
Groove. That part of the sections which is turned over in backing to receive the board. Also called the Joint.