While I go round to the Leathers my good friend Captain Stride will go in advance of you to Mrs Brooke's and break the news to her.
When I got them open I saw two men in black leathers bending over me.
The pair of Spaceforce guards at the gates, wearing the black leathers of the Terran Empire, shockers holstered at their belts, were drowsing under the arched gateway where the star-and-rocket emblem proclaimed the domain of Terra.
When they got inside they walked up and down the room--or rather, Patent-leathers stood still while Square-toes walked up and down.
Hence japanned leathers are often made from flesh splits or leatherswith a damaged grain.
The manufacture of curried dressing leathers is a combination of vegetable and fat tannages.
From what has been previously said as to the quality of goat and sheepskin leathers (Part II.
Stuffing the dressingleathers is carried out in a variety of ways and with a variety of materials.
The youngest animals supply suitable raw material for various light leathers (see Part II.
As soft leathers are chiefly wanted, a mellow liming is quite the usual requirement for all skins.
This is due not only to the demand for morocco leather, but also to the popularity of the goatskin chrome upper leathers such as "glace kid" (see Part III.
It is an exceedingly suitable material for the early stages of tanning, and is much liked for tanning leathers that have to be curried, and is widely used in the manufacture of upper leather.
As we have noted in the preceding section, the alum-tanned leathersare not very water resisting, and much of the tannage will wash out.
Enamelled leathers are then grained to develop the pattern.
Light leathers are very lightly oiled with linseed or mineral oil.
The Sub-Committee made a number of tests and analyses of samples of decayed leather bookbindings, as well as of leathers used for binding.
Dark coloured leathers were also sewn as borders on lighter ones, and polished metal ornaments were added to brighten the leather groundwork, a fashion borrowed from the method of joining and strengthening the accoutrements of war.
The tannage of bookbinding leathers must be a mellow one, and must not be carried too far, as we have found in many cases the cause of decay in tanned leather has been the fact that the leather was overloaded with tannin.
Early specimens of red morocco from the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century were found in good condition, and of all the leathers noticed, this seems to be the least affected by the various conditions to which it had been subjected.
Cow and calf are the most suitableleathers for really artistic work.
An exact tracing of the design is made on rather stiff paper, which is coloured or numbered to correspond with the pieces of the different leathers which are to compose the mosaic.
Sheepskins are grained in imitation of other leathers and these imitation-grained leathers are generally found to be in a worse condition than any of the other bindings, except, perhaps, some of the very thin calf skin.
The first of these was to visit a selected number of libraries, and to ascertain the comparative durability of the various bookbinding leathers used at different periods and preserved under different conditions.
But of all the games that I ever ran, I think the biggest was during the war, just after Captain Leathers had purchased the elegant steamer Magenta.
He was known all along the river, and Captain Leathers thought it strange to see him playing with me; but the gentleman understood it, for I was always "lucky at poker.
I was glad to see the old fellow so far from home, so I told the pilot that the Natchez was the fastest boat on the Mississippi; and Captain Leathers went down to see the boys and the barkeeper.
When a party, partly of horsemen and partly of footmen, are running away from danger as hard as they can, the footmen lay hold of the stirrup-leathers of the riders, to assist them.
A stick forms the seat' at either end of it is a short stirrup; garters secure the stirrup leathers to the knees; there is a belt under the arms.
Some ribs are scattered on the soil like old cages broken; and close by, blackened leathers are afloat, with water-bottles and drinking-cups pierced and flattened.
It isn't every dude that wears patent leathers and parts his hair in the middle, who hasn't sense enough to flag the bread-wagon when it comes tearing down the pike.
The stirrups are suspended by leathers placed behind the girth, which are simply twisted straps of morocco or camel's skin—when doubled seven or eight times, they are of great strength.
For this reason the Arabs generally have the leathers of their spurs tolerably loose, in order to obviate by their slackness, their own awkwardness.
They are then dried, and disposed of to the currier, who dresses and blackens them for the upper leathers of boots and shoes, for harness, and other purposes.
Put a saddle on half a dozen different horses one after the other and note where the stirrup-leathers fall, i.
The length of the stirrup leathers will be right when the tread of the iron strikes the heels.
I am convinced that tight, ill-fitting leathers may have broken bones to answer for.
Never mind," said another, "we'll soon drill his leathers into hot rolls and butter.
Still there, in the window, were the slim pumps, the patent leathers with cloth tops, the sooty riding boots.
I must confess to an involuntary shudder, as, at the instance of a too-active imagination, the waters of the Maravina pierced a pair of leathers "by a local artist of the name of Jobson.
And if anything feels more miserable than a pair of leathers when they are damp, I pray to be spared the knowledge.
It may be stated here that vegetable-tanned leathers are not generally "strained" on boards, as such leather is better in quality and substance when hung up and dried.
The adaptation of combined tannages in the manufacture of gloving leathers has only lately been developed, and further improvements will doubtless be effected before long.
This variety has been made for ages, and the name probably originated from the fact that very fine leathers of this kind were manufactured in Morocco a few centuries ago.
The tanning and currying of harness and saddleryleathers is another special branch.
Bureau of Industry analysed several American leathersin 1913 and found that a large majority were artificially weighted with glucose and Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate).
The tannage completed, the acid salts in the leathers are neutralised with borax, and after the leather has been washed in warm water it is ready for dyeing.
To get a good, fast black on chamois and suede leathers is one of the difficult processes in the leather trade, although it is easier to get a good black on alumed or chromed leather than on vegetable-tanned.
Box leathers and glazed kid are the most popular of all.
Saddlery leathers are dressed on similar lines, but the finish is not so greasy as harness.
In an ordinary bindery thin or split leathersare mostly used; these do not require very much paring, which is only necessary for pig-skin and the finest moroccos.
For paring all thick leathers or large surfaces it surpasses all other makes in execution.
This oiling, of course, is only practicable with dark leathers, as light leathers nearly always become darker.
Blind tooling may be executed upon leathers of any colour, but its full decorative effect is seen only upon light colours, especially upon undyed calf and pig-skin and also upon coloured unpolished calf.
With many leathers it is a very difficult matter to pare against the grain, especially pig-skin and cow-hide.
Fine leathers are first stamped and the impression is gone over with a brush, then the gold is laid on and again impressed.
The deterioration of the quality of modern book paper and badly prepared leathers have been serious drawbacks to good bookbinding, but there has been a revival of interest in the art for its own sake during recent years.
Leathers that look alike may wear very differently.
The experience of recent years with the leathersused in book binding has led librarians to a wider use of book cloths of various kinds.
We give below, according to this method, a table showing the composition of the different leathers exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1878.
The composition of different leathers exhibited at the Paris Exhibition.
Until within the last two or three years it has been difficult to get leathers tanned according to the specifications of the Society of Arts.
I like my stirrupleathers very short; that gives one a much firmer seat.
One moment; my stirrup leathers are still too long.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leathers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
