Most National Trust houses contain some items of leather, from utilitarian leather fire-buckets to rich and ornamented Spanish and Dutch leather panels.
These embossed, painted and gilded panels are sometimes, as at Dyrham Park in Gloucestershire and Ham House in London, stretched on battens like damask wall hangings.
Sometimes, as at Dunster Castle in Somerset, leather was framed as panels, and sometimes mounted as screens.
Leather is frequently found as upholstery, as covers for chests and tables, as costume accessories, or in carriage construction and harness items.
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