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Blind Tooling Leather with Handmade Tools

Blind tooling leather is an aspect of bookbinding that I very much want to further incorporate into my work, so in this video I experiment with some of my handmade tools. Watch as I use the brass gouge I made in a previous video, an ink pad, and paper to develop and refine a leaf pattern. Then, by heating the tools, I emboss the design I created onto the leather corners of a book.

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  • Originally Aired April 4, 2021
  • Runtime 10 minutes
  • Created June 26, 2025 by
    Fusto
  • Modified June 26, 2025 by
    Fusto