International studio (33.1907/1908(1908))

National Society of Craftsmen


PUTTING IN LEATHER
Position when turning in at head and tail

inside of the board as tightly as possible and
smoothed down. It is very necessary at this
particular juncture to see that the leather is turned
down as tightly as possible at the hinge, and if
necessary pushed against the inner side of the
board (in the joint) with the pointed bone folder.
The folder is also to be run firmly along edge of
the cover, pressing the leather against it as tightly
as possible, in order to make a good square edge.
The same operation is to be gone through with the
other cover.
If it is now found by inspection of the back that
the turned-in leather, instead of lying smoothly, is
wrinkled, this can be helped by standing the book
up, partly opening the covers and slipping a very


thin, narrow, bone folder between the back and the
leather and by a little gentle manipulation smooth
out the wrinkles.
This same operation must be gone through with
at the tail of the book. Great care must be taken
to push enough leather down into the joint, both
at head and tail, to allow the book to open easily.
Now turn in each fore edge by itself, the book
lying on its side and one hand being placed between
the sections and the cover on which work is being
done. The fore edge in particular should be
smoothed very firmly with the folder, in order that
the edges of the board when finished will be sharp
and not rounded.
No covering for the leather is used when it is
being pressed against the edges with the folder.
{To be continued)
SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF
CRAFTSMEN OF NEW YORK
At the time of our going to press the
National Society of Craftsmen of New York was
about to open its second annual exhibition in the
galleries of the National Arts Club, Gramercy
Square, and in its own studios in the Arts Club
Studio Building, at 119 East Nineteenth Street,
near Fourth Avenue, New York.
In its present display, the society shows a
noticeable advance from its opening exhibition of
a year ago. The system of grouping carried out
in the present exhibition is most interesting. The
committee in charge, whose competent and clever
head is Mr. J. William Fosdick, has formed com-
parative groups of craft work.
Mr. Fosdick has taken pains to obtain a most
instructive collection of photographs of English,
French and German hand crafts. These are shown
in connection with American work of the same
sort. There are also photographs of some of the
products of the English and French Guilds, par-
ticularly of the London County Council School.
On November 27 Mr. Fosdick, vice-president of
the society, will lecture in the exhibition rooms on
the result of his investigations in London.
On Wednesday, December 4, a lecture on 11 Arts
and Crafts in Oriental Rugs” will be given in the
exhibition rooms by H. K. Samuelian; and on
Wednesday, December n, “Considerations on Art
Education” will be discussed by Prof. E. F.
Fenollosa. All of these lectures will be illustrated
by stereopticon. The exhibition remains open till
the evening of December 11, Wednesday.

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