Thread: Pasting a Strop, "Split-Side Up"

I recently came across a stated preference in a knife-sharpening manual for using a pasted strop glued to a block of wood with the split-side up. So let's say I have a vegetable-tanned piece of machinery belting and wanted to follow this recommendation. There is of course the smoothed side that I normally would consider stropping on, and there is the more "suede-like" backside. If I were to glue piece of this to a block of wood with the backside up, would this be "split-side up," generally speaking?