[Ansteorra] Research help
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Tue Jan 24 21:40:16 PST 2006
On Jan 24, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Robin Lindsey & William Willett wrote:
> I need some help/direction for research. I am wanting to start
> a tooled leather shield cover, but have only found a few sources
> online. This is what I have found so far:
>
> http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/download.php?id=1104 This
> is a document that Duke Garick von Kopke translated for a person on
> the Armour archives
>
> http://www.geocities.com/scalaska1/shield.html this shows parts of
> three shields talking about leather on shields
>
> http://www.myarmoury.com/feature_shield.html This is a good paper
> where the author's talk about many different shields. The part on
> the medieval shields starts on page 6 and ends on page 7
>
> There are quite a few references at the bottom of the page. Does
> anyone have any of these books. I would like to drown in
> documentation before I even start this project. Unfotunately,
> though, I won't use period dyes for the coloring (due to the toxic
> nature of it), so I will probably use acrylic(sp?) paints instead.
> William Willett & Robin Lindsey
> moiranliam at earthlink.net
I'm afraid I'm not clear on whether you are looking for information
on shields or on leather tooling or just leather tooling on period
shields. Here are a few files in the COMBAT and the CRAFTS sections
of the Florilegium which might be of use:
shields-msg (103K) 6/16/05 SCA and period shields.
Shield-Balanc-art (10K) 6/23/99 "How to Balance your Shield to YOU!"
by Master Sir Anluan Trelaine.
W-T-Shields-art (20K) 1/19/01 "War and Tourney Shields"
by HL Aaron of the Black
Mountains.
leather-bib (18K) 11/ 1/94 Bibliography on leather and
leather goods.
leather2-bib (9K) 6/11/99 Leather bibliography by Vilyehm
the Merchant
leather-msg (86K) 7/25/04 Working with leather. tanning.
leather-dyeing-msg(40K) 11/ 9/01 Dyeing and painting leather.
lea-tooling-msg (55K) 6/26/05 Leather tooling. decorating leather.
Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
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