Finally, in order to hide the patchwork effect presented at the back, the whole was lined with long strips of white, or light yellow, leather.

Despite the difficulties of treatment which this work presented, the result is most remarkable.[75] The outlines of the gazelles, scarabaei, and flowers are as clean-cut and as elegant as if drawn with the pen upon a wall-surface or a page of papyrus.
The choice of subjects is happy, and the colours employed are both lively and harmonious.
[Illustration: Fig.

274 .-- Bark with cut leather sail; wall-painting tomb of Rameses III.] The craftsmen who designed and executed the canopy of Isiemkheb had profited by a long experience of this system of decoration, and of the kind of patterns suitable to the material.

For my own part, I have not the slightest doubt that the cushions of chairs and royal couches, and the sails of funeral and sacred boats used for the transport of mummies and divine images, were most frequently made in leather-work.

The chequer- patterned sail represented in one of the boat subjects painted on the wall of a chamber in the tomb of Rameses III.