[Bryn-gwlad] Leatherworking

[kcmarsh at suddenlink.net]

I also have some experience with leather tooling, shaping, hardening, dying and painting as well as working with rawhide.  As it turns out I may have some unexpected free time in the next couple of months so I could host a workshop session or three if there is interest.

Maelgwyn

---- Ed Shelton <shelton_ed at hotmail.com> wrote: 
> I do lots of leather armor and will be happy to help you out.
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> Have shop and will work for stick time,
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> Giotto
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> >From: "Holly Bjorum" <hbjorum at gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
> >To: "Barony of Bryn Gwlad" <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
> >Subject: [Bryn-gwlad] Leatherworking
> >Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:03:41 -0600
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> >Greetings All,
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> >I am interested in Leatherworking, and understand that the Guild is
> >(more or less) inactive.
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> >I was wondering if anyone else in the Barony was interested in any
> >aspects of the craft - from tanning to design.  If so, who is
> >interested in being participatory?
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> >Does anyone have areas of expertise they'd be willing to share on a
> >regular and/or occasional basis? I'd like to start learning some
> >period techniques for working with leather to construct objects - garb
> >pieces, armor, utilitarian items like bags/scabbards/skeins, artistic
> >items like masks/crypto-taxidermy preps, etc.
> >
> >I have experience in taxidermy through my mundane education and prior
> >work, but am unfamiliar with period methods (Written accounts of
> >preserved specimens date back to Aristotle and the Musaion - now
> >referred to as the Library at Alexandria, and "Cabinets of Curiosity"
> >were popular beginning in the 1500's, some included natural history
> >specimens and crypto-taxidermy preps - perhaps the most famous was the
> >Kunstkamer of Peter the Great of the early 1700's, but others were
> >known before then, like Ole Worm's personal collection c.1620 and the
> >Tradescant collection of the Ashmolean Museum - c.1600).  I am
> >interested in learning, and would be willing to research and possibly
> >teach a class in period taxidermy techniques at a later date (at the
> >very earliest we'd have to wait for hunting season to start up again
> >so we have materials to work with).
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> >Please let me know, I have the interest, but alas, not the workspace.
> >
> >Holly
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