[Ansteorra] Leather Working Question

[Jasper]

If you want to know about patterns of tooling, as far as I know there are very few surviving examples from the archaeological record of actual leather having been "tooled" or embossed. I have included a pic from the British museum of a find near London. They claim it is the only surviving example but I am bet there are others. This upper arm defense is from the 14th century and would have been worn with a mix of maille and possibly a coat of plates. Tooling in period I think would have been more along these lines (floral patterns, knot work and the like) depending on the locale and time period. Osprey Men at Arms books like Scottish and Welsh Wars 1250-1400 and Gallowglass 1250-1600 might give you an idea of where to take your kit. If you are going period I would stay away from bright colors, use naturals like light and dark browns. Period illuminations are also a good source for armor and kit ideas. Just my two schillings...

Jasper C.
Leather Guru



----- Original Message ----
From: Adam Edwards <wilim.penbras at pandora.org>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Fri, June 4, 2010 8:13:04 PM
Subject: [Ansteorra] Leather Working Question

Quick question about tooling leather. 
Are there any patterns particular to time and place that have been documented?  1350s Welsh is my chosen period but anything remotely close would be great.  Otherwise I'm just going to go with Images and patterns that have meaning for me.  More specifically I'm looking to make another set of armor that is tooled leather over kydex and just thought it'd be nice to go with something period if such a thing exists.

WP
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