...so, using the pieces as roughout isn’t my favorite idea but I can see it. I didn’t realize what I’m considering is so off-the-wall, but in more detail:
What I have is not quite a dozen “D” shapes, around 4x5” in size, with floral work on it. I may have ignorantly referred to this as a “Sheridan” style, but beside the point
I’ve recently done a project I’d like to repeat with Greek letters scaled to a 3” circle cut out of the leather and applied to a diamond stitched background. I don’t have much experience tooling leather, but:
i hope I can re-case the leather, and use a background tool to obscure the existing tooling and replace that with texture. I assume, if this works, that I’d work the leather before cutting it out, but there could be more considerations: will the leather relax and lighten the previous tooling thru multiple wettings? Would saturating the leather have a positive effect toward that end? I don’t expect the old marks to go away, I just want obscure them enough to make it useful beyond cutting into washers for knife handles or padding corners of shop carts. It’s 1/4” thick and I don’t plan to throw it away.
