Covering A Fraction of the Whole.

The dye was fixed, initial pasting to the leather has been allowed to dry out and then, after a second application of paste the leather is applied to the carcass.



I love this part of the process, the manipulation of the leather. The design begins to take shape,what was two dimensional has become 3 dimensional, the patterns, colours and line work have form.


Detail of the front board.


Detail of the head cap, end band and edge decoration.