A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone.
There is no clearly marked school of blind-tooling at present, though here and there the method has been used with success.
Blind" tooling is the impression of hot tools on the leather.
A binding covered with fine gold-tooling may be just as restful and far more beautiful, but while there is comparatively little scope for failure in the plain binding, there are appalling pitfalls if the cover be lavishly decorated.
Gold-tooling came to Europe from the East, and preserved a tradition of Eastern design for a very long period.
Another method is to tool the edge before burnishing, or the different portions of the tooling may be so managed in burnishing that some parts will be left bright and standing in relief on the unburnished or dead surface.
As a rule no very heavy tooling is ever put on vellum, the beauty lies in keeping the vellum as clean as possible.
The tooling being, comparatively speaking, on the surface, owing to the thinness of the skin, requires a very competent and clean workman to produce anything like good work on vellum.
Next, wherever burnished gold was to be introduced, the thick mordant-ground was laid on; the gold leaf was then applied and finished with tooling and burnishing.
After tooling about such surface fixtures, follow immediately with a sponge well loaded with water, thus flooding out the loosened accumulations of gritty matter.
In cleaning up a carriage body for varnishing, first wash out the inside surface, tooling out all the corners, etc.
The two former modes of treatment may, as we have said, be developed to any extent in the direction of tooling and gilding; the sheep has to be left unadorned--simplex munditiis.
Although he probably did not fully appreciate either the peculiar limitations or the possibilities of the art of gold-tooling on leather, nevertheless his genius guided him truly as to the spirit in which the designs should be conceived.
Gold tooling came into use on bindings, and in the second half of the century very elaborate decoration was in vogue in France until checked by a sumptuary law.
The bindings of Padeloup le Jeune often have small tickets with his name upon them; they usually have borders of lace-like gold tooling known as "dentelle" and are often inlaid.
Vignetting, which consists of a skillful grading off of the edges of a picture, as well as extensive tooling or hand engraving, is often employed for artistic effect but should be specified only for exceptional illustrations.
As already stated, half-tone plates can be improved by re-etching and tooling, but tooling tends to destroy the effects of nature and produces an artificial appearance in the print.
The process of tooling the pen wiper does not differ essentially from that already employed in the foregoing problems.
The design should be transferred, the line of stitching determined, and the tooling done, according to the description already given for the other problems.
The simple tools required for tooling leather may be purchased at small cost, or they may be made from cheap nut picks by filing these to shape, polishing them, and buffing them.
The tooling of leather is based upon the fact that, when wet, the fibre yields readily to compression and receives impressions that are retained after the leather is dry.
The decorations should be bold and rich, but the tooling should be confined to a small part of the surface.
As the leather dries it will be seen that the tooling has given it a dark, glossy surface.
The tooling is done as directed in the other examples of this class of work.
There is not very much preference one way or the other; in the one above detailed we avoid the risk of fresh damage to the scroll while sawing and cutting, the rough or more violent tooling being done before the junction is effected.
Tooling is the name given to the designs impressed upon the leather with various small dies so manipulated as to make a connected pattern.
The art of gold tooling is believed to have originated in the East, and to have been brought to Italy by Venetian traders, or, as it has also been suggested, through the manuscripts which were dispersed at the fall of Constantinople.
To-day the surfaces of the Sarsens bear undoubted signs of weather, but in the Stonehenge of yesterday the Sarsens were beautifully finished with rough toolingall over their surface.
The tooling upon this fragment is absolutely perfect, and as clean and sharp as it was when it left the hand of the craftsman about four thousand years ago.
In some parts of the line, this tooling takes a definite form; when this is the case, the marking called the diamond broaching is most common.
The whole face of the Wall has a remarkably fresh appearance, and nowhere can the tooling of the stones be examined with more advantage.
The precision of the toolingin this intricate tracery is indeed remarkable.
The work is executed in a masterly manner, the proportions being well calculated and the precision of the hand tooling remarkably well maintained.
Enriched with a wealth of intricate, fine-scale hand-tooling of daintiness and precision, they indicate the influence of Adam design and detail, although quite unlike the typical Adam mantel.
The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions.
Bulbous body with good qualitytooling at the shoulder; handle with single groove down the spine; the base and neck conjectural, but modeled after the forms produced by Dwight of Fulham in the late 17th century.
Rim and wall fragment of cup or small bowl, the rim slightly everted by tooling beneath it.
For gold tooling on such materials gilding powder is used; it is to be had either white or yellow, but for hand toolingthe white only is required.
Its peculiarity and beauty consist in its rendering the tooling on the leather in a darker tone.
So far, we have dealt with the preparation for finishing and tooling with a roll.
Gold tooling has evolved from the blind tooling of the 15th century, which up to that time had been the only method of decoration for the exterior of books, excepting where gold or jewels were used.
Blind toolingmay 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.
Specimen of tooling done in the Duesseldorf Technical School.
Blind tooling is the ornamenting of leather with tools without the application of gold.
When tooling is done with powder it is dusted on by means of a powder-box, over which is stretched some thin material, and tooled lukewarm.
Tooling upon powder on leather looks very gritty and unsightly after having undergone many changes of temperature, as the latter greatly affects this material.
Besides tooling the front sides, the inside edges or squares are generally ornamented in extra work.
Well, this little incident of Harry's unexpected extravagance was a line of character-tooling on John's soul.
Each number was wrapped in a thin and transparent but very strong paper through which the cover design and tooling were clearly visible.
The intricate blind-tooling of the doublure shadowed forth the blind fate which left us in ignorance of our future and our past, or of even what the day itself might bring forth.
While our shops were toolingup for the effort, 620 of these weapons were purchased from the French and turned over to the American Expeditionary Forces.
The railroad congestion of February and March, 1918, held up the delivery of tubing, but the assembly plants utilized the time in tooling up for the future production.
Vickers machine guns of the heavy, mobile type; and a number of great factories were tooling up at top speed for the immense production of Browning guns of all types soon to begin.
United States at once a complete set of jigs, gauges, and all other necessary tooling of a Rolls-Royce plant.
The earliest English bindings with gold tooling were, of course, also imitative.
If tooling is desired, use the broad-end tool and press down the background with firm even strokes.
It can be worked out in line, tooling or stamping.
Bear in mind that Russian calf is used for tooling and stamping, and ooze cow or calf for perforated designs.
Illustration: Stamp-Case Pattern] Two other methods may be used: tooling or stamping.
Any size may be used, and the method of lining or tooling the design, or both, gives a very beautiful effect.
If it is necessary to restore a complicated ornament upon an ancient and very precious binding, special irons must be cut, using the tooling still in place as a guide.
If many books are sent to the same binder, however, suggestions on finish and toolingmay very well be made.
G] To the above tools may be added, if desired, one or two small tooling irons of simple design for blind tooling.
With the written directions, a sketch of the book may be furnished, giving details of the design of tooling wanted, except in cases where it is known that this matter may safely be left to the good taste of the binder.
The reason for such suggestions is that nearly every binder has certain set personal conventions, especially in the matter of tooling construction, causing, in all his bindings, a certain uniformity of design.
The most original and graceful tooling is of much less real value than permanence, and a book bound with a flat back, without nerfs, might practically as well not be bound at all.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tooling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
