An Old Book From 1917

[salvi]

Full color scan from an old and descriptive book about prepared leather for handcrafting and leather industry.

http://hotfile.com/dl/107794966/3b7a0a0/1917_La_Croix_Frederic_W._-_The_Leather_Specimen_Book.pdf.html

Edited February 27, 2011 by salvi

[MikeCahill]

  On 2/27/2011 at 5:33 PM, salvi said:

Full color scan from an old and descriptive book about prepared leather for handcrafting and leather industry.

http://hotfile.com/dl/107794966/3b7a0a0/1917_La_Croix_Frederic_W._-_The_Leather_Specimen_Book.pdf.html

It would be a nice book to own, but at this age the leather samples will be very badly degraded

cheers

Mike

[Jurgen Smits]

Hi,

I tried to download this book,but there is a problem whit hotfile. I'm very intresting in old techniques in leather making.

cheers

[HellfireJack]

You can download it from archive.org

http://www.archive.org/details/leatherspecimenb00lacr

There is no leather craft instruction or technique in this book. It's literally just 30 pages of pictures of leather sample squares.

[lightningad]

now that looks useful for a newbie like me!

and all those great old paper textures as well - fantastic for my day job!