What is "leatherwork"

Usage examples of "leatherwork".

Boba Fett spoke this time, leaning back against the leatherwork of the chair that had been given him.

We produce nothing comparable to the great Oriental carpets, Persian glass, tiles, and illuminated books, Arabian leatherwork, Spanish marquetry, Hindu textiles, Chinese porcelain and embroidery, Japanese lacquer and brocade, French tapestries, or Inca jewelry.

He watched her from the porch until she disappeared among the trees, then turned his attention back to his leatherwork, using a hammer, block and punch, making holes for lacings in what would be, by a few hours work, a good pair of shoes.

I turned to see she was looking at the intricate leatherwork of my scabbard.

The objects reported by von Koenigswald, if used in the same manner as South American bolas, imply that their makers were adept not only at stone-working but leatherworking as well.

After several false starts, they had found that Ordovician leatherwork was valued even if those buying it could not decipher the symbols burned and worked into the hides.

Lean men, dressed in the black leatherwork and weasel pelts of Scarpe, watching her as if they had something to fear.

They wandered around, eating cakes sticky with a white, sweet powder while they looked over heaps of silverwork and brassware, oil lamps, silks, perfumes, jewellery, strangely shaped knives, and decorative leatherwork.

Of course, there were legitimate business interests to be considered too, and he'd been buying into quite a lot of them lately: a leatherworks factory in New Hampshire, a computer plant in Pittsburgh, thoroughbred yearlings in Kentucky and California, a professional basketball team in Albuquerque.

The cab pulled into a tight lock and my new friend eased her back-combing on to the leatherwork with a sigh.