The skiver leather is used for making grapes, or very small leaves and flowers, and can be obtained at the same place as the basil leather; this kind is also very useful for thin stems and any minute portion of the work.
Carved wood figures may be draped with tolerable success with the skiver leather, but we have never seen any that looked well enough when finished to repay the time and trouble.
Cherries are made in the same manner as grapes, and the stalk neatly covered with skiver leather.
If this is insisted upon they must be split or shaved of all their muscular tissue till merely the grain or skiver is left.
The skiver leather is used for making grapes, or very small leaves and flowers, and can be obtained at the same place as the basil leather; this kind is also useful for thin stems and any minute portion of the work.
Bone and shell in small amounts were found here, and among them the skiver shown at d in plate 36.
It is a leather much used for commercial binding, but since the splitting process takes away a great part of the strength of the skin, leaving it not much stronger than strong paper, skiver is wholly unfitted for library use.
Very thin skiverused as labels on which to gild lettering.
Skiver is the outside of a sheepskin which has been split, the inner side being known as the flesher.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skiver" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
